20220506. The new rail bridge being constructed over Dupont St on the GO Transit Barrie Line is much higher allowing for a park underneath to the south.
Tag Archives: railway bridge
20210731. Bridges of July #31. The Half Mile Bridge on the derelict Don Branch Railway before the barriers (from 2012).
20210729. The Pennsylvania Railroad crossed the Erie Canal on this 1918 ‘warren through truss with all verticals’ bridge. Genesee Valley Park, Rochester.
20210728. Bridges of July #28. The Fredericton Railway Bridge (first train 1938, last 1996) turned Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge is 607 m long on the Trans Canada Trail (from 2016).
20210725. Bridges of July #25. A VIA train zooms over the dual CN Railway bridges at Gerrard St and Carlaw Ave.
20210719. Bridges of July #19. A boy puts a railway underpass on Eglinton Avenue into scale.
20210716. Bridges of July #16. The early ancestors of Star Wars Scout Walkers worked the railway lines of Earth lifting double leaf Bascule bridges. Over Welland Canal Lock 4.
20210416. Columns of the CN Rail underpass on McCowan south of Eglinton.
20200630. Under Highway 401 at Leslie Street.
20200625. This CN Railway box girder bridge was featured in The Toronto Star’s The Fixer column nine years ago for looking so ugly. I like it.
20190811. The 1912 Smiths Falls Scherzer rolling-lift railway bridge was operated manually for 63 years from 1915 to 1978 for the Canadian Northern Railway mainline over the Rideau Canal. It is a National Historic Site.
20181102. Toronto railway bridge 89 on the CN Kingston Subdivision.
The early ancestors of Star Wars All Terrain Scout Transports (AT_ST) or Scout Walkers worked the railway lines of Earth lifting double leaf Bascule bridges.
20170605. Capturing the elevated leaf of a double-leafed bascule railway bridge as a cargo ship prepares to leave Welland Canal’s lock 4 below.
