Tag Archives: bridge
20160313. A discounted UP Express train races below Toronto’s Bathurst Street bridge.
20160103. Peering through steel bridge piers across the West Don River.
20151208. Up on the catwalk II.
20151206. An “under deck polygonal warren through truss with alternating verticals” bridge has complex joints.
20151205. Gauging the thickness of the steel under one of Toronto’s most massive bridges.
20151202. Under an under deck truss bridge.
20151129. Up on the catwalk.
20151111. A pair of triple level pedestrian bridges dominate Simcoe St at Canada Life’s Toronto campus.
20150726. A Krider’s red-tailed hawk looks for prey on an abandoned rusty 53 year old pedestrian overpass in Thornhill.
20150723. A deck level view of Toronto’s Cherry St Bascule Bridge.
20150712. Pickering GO station’s new walkway snakes between a new parkade and the Hwy 401 pedestrian bridge.
20150124. Toronto’s new PATH bridge looms above Lower Simcoe St but is dwarfed beneath the CN Tower.
20141217. Repairing the Burlington Bay Skyway heritage bridge (c.1958).
In 1985, a second bridge (behind) was added to double traffic capacity. This second bridge is unimpressive compared to the original and does not compliment it in anyway.
Could you imagine using the portable toilet near the top of the platform rigging on a cold windy day?
20141028. A beautiful old CSX(?) railway bridge traverses the Erie Canal in Genesee Valley Park.
20141004. Into the mouth of the temporary bridge spanning the construction site of the future 100 Adelaide W, Toronto.
20141004. Into the mouth of the temporary bridge spanning the construction site of the future 100 Adelaide W, Toronto.
20140930. A retro pedestrian overpass brightens the night. University of Toronto downtown.
20140928. The temporary bridge to existing loading docks spans the construction site of the future 100 Adelaide West, Toronto.
20140723. Looking north at the West Third Street Bridge (c.1940) over the Cuyahoga River in the Flats of Cleveland.
Note the remains of the demolished Inner Belt Bridge in the background. The West Third Street Bridge looks great now but underwent a botched rehabilitation in 2004 including the installation of lift cables that were three feet too short! It is a Vertical Lift Pratt through Truss bridge with a navigation clearance of 100 feet.