- Aerial Lift Bridge - An automobile bridge in Duluth, Minnesota which began life as an aerial transfer or ferry bridge.
Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge - Connecting Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York; at 170 m span, the longest in the world.
ASB Bridge - A bridge that handled both trains and cars on two decks over the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri.
Broadway Bridge a bridge built which spans the Harlem River carrying both traffic from Broadway but also that of the no 1 Train of the New York City Subway .
Burlington-Bristol Bridge - A two-lane bridge over the Delaware River, joining Bristol, Pennsylvania with Burlington, New Jersey between Philadelphia and New York City.
Canal Street railroad bridge - Chicago, IL 1914
Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge - A single-track railroad bridge over the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne, Massachusetts.
Cape Fear Memorial Bridge - A four-lane bridge over the Cape Fear River that joins Wilmington and Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Lift Bridge - A single-track railroad bridge over the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in Delaware that was built in 1966 for the Pennsylvania Railroad and replaced an earlier structure when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers widened the canal in the mid-1960s. It is the only bridge of its type along the canal, with earlier highway lift or swing bridges being replaced by high-level crossings.
Claiborne Avenue Bridge - A four lane bridge over the ICWW carrying LA 39 in New Orleans
Conrail Bridge - A single track railroad bridge over the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, one of nine railroad and automobile lift bridges, and three bascule bridges, allowing ore boats to service the Flats.
Danziger Bridge - The world's widest vertical lift movable bridge, at seven lanes, over the ICWW in New Orleans
Fourteenth Street Bridge (Ohio River) - A single-track railroad bridge over the Ohio River at its widest point, Louisville, Kentucky.
Green Island Bridge - Opened in 1981, its span is a simply supported plate girder bridge supported by a cross member
Hastings Rail Bridge - A single track railroad bridge at Hastings, Minnesota over the Mississippi River
Hawthorne Bridge - A four lane bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. Opened in 1910, it is the oldest operating vertical lift bridge in the United States.[6]
Interstate Bridge - Carries Interstate 5 traffic over the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon.
Main Street Bridge - A four-lane bridge over the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, Florida.
Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge - Crosses Rockaway Inlet between Brooklyn and Queens, New York; designed in 1937 by David Steinman.
Murray Morgan Bridge - Steel lift bridge in Tacoma, Washington. Notable for its height above water, sloping span and overhead span to carry a water pipe. Closed October 23rd, 2007.
Park Avenue Bridge - New York City bridge with a 160-metre (520 ft) span, which replaced a swing bridge in 1960.
Portage Lake Lift Bridge - A bridge which connects the Michigan cities of Hancock and Houghton
Sarah Mildred Long Bridge and Memorial Bridge - Two lift bridges (out of 3 bridges) over the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine.
Stillwater Bridge - A highway bridge that joins Stillwater, Minnesota with Houlton, Wisconsin over the St. Croix River.
St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge - A single-track railroad bridge in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota over the Mississippi River.
Steel Bridge - A double-lift bridge in Portland, Oregon over the Willamette River. Its bottom deck carries railroad tracks and a bike lane and can be lifted independently of the upper deck with a road and light rail tracks. It is the only double-deck bridge with independent lifts in the world.[7]
Tower Bridge - A four-lane bridge over the Sacramento River connecting Sacramento and West Sacramento, California.
Torrence Avenue (Chicago, IL) & 4 Railroad bridges along Calumet Shipping Canal
Saturday, April 24, 2010
United States Bridges
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