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Keokuk Rail Bridge, between Keokuk, Iowa and Hamilton, Illinois; La Crosse Rail Bridge, between La Crescent, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin; Louisiana Railroad Bridge, between Louisiana, Missouri and Pike County, Illinois; Newport Rail Bridge, between Inver Grove Heights and St. Paul Park, Minnesota
The Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, also known as the 11-foot-8 Bridge or the Can Opener Bridge, [a] is a railroad bridge in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Built in 1940, the bridge allows passenger and freight trains to cross over South Gregson Street in downtown Durham and also functions as the northbound access to the ...
Road and rail may be segregated, so that trains may operate at the same time as road vehicles (e.g. the Sydney Harbour Bridge). With truss bridges, the rail track can be above the roadway or vice versa. Road and rail may share the same carriageway so that road traffic must stop when the trains operate, like a level crossing.
Dock Bridge – A six-track rail bridge in New Jersey carrying Amtrak, New Jersey Transit, and PATH trains over the Passaic River, consisting of three parallel vertical lift spans carrying one, two, and three tracks respectively from south to north, with both tracks of the two-track span at a higher level than all the others.
Murrumbidgee River railway bridge is a heritage-listed disused railway bridge on the Tocumwal railway line crossing from Narrandera to Gillenbah, both in Narrandera Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Whitton in his capacity as Engineer-in-Chief for Railways, and built in 1884–85 by Halliday & Owen with ironwork ...
It demonstrates the economic re-use of part of the erection truss used to build the Burdekin River Rail Bridge at Macrossan between Townsville and Charters Towers opened in 1899. The complete truss was 250 feet (76 m ) long whereas the Ideraway Creek bridge uses only 150 feet (46 m) of the span .
When British Rail proposed to dismantle the original pavilions and rebuild them using reconstituted stonework, English Heritage refused permissions; accordingly, there was no substantial restoration performed to the viaduct during this period, a decision which British Rail publicly attributed to the sizeable estimated cost of such works.
The bridge was built on concrete piers 85 feet (25.9 m) above the Columbia River to provide clearance for any river traffic. The spans include 14 Warren deck trusses, one Parker through truss, and deck plate girders on the approaches. [1] When the railroad electrified in the 1920s, supports for the catenary were added to the bridge.