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Heavy Girder Over Bridge The Heavy Girder Over Bridge (HGOB) provides a lower profile allowing easier crossing for heavy transporters and tankers on line of communication routes. The bridge is transported on 1 DROPS pallet of a 14 tonne truck. A Royal Engineers Section and a crane is used to construct the bridge.
The Chicago and North Western Railway's Kinzie Street railroad bridge (also known as the Carroll Avenue bridge or the Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge) is a single leaf bascule bridge across the north branch of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois. At the time of its opening in 1908 it was the world's longest and heaviest ...
The Cortland Street Drawbridge (originally known as the Clybourn Place drawbridge) [4] over the Chicago River is the original Chicago-style fixed-trunnion bascule bridge, designed by John Ericson and Edward Wilmann. [3] When it opened in 1902, on Chicago's north side, it was the first such bridge built in the United States.
Chicago River Bridge, Cermak Road Extant Rolling lift (Scherzer) bascule: 1906 1988 West Cermak Road: South Branch of Chicago River: Chicago: Cook: IL-51: Chicago River Bridge, West Adams Street Extant Simple trunnion bascule: 1926 1987
La Salle Street Bridge (Chicago) ... (Chicago) Monroe Street Bridge (Chicago River) N. Nichols Bridgeway; North Avenue Bridge; O. Outer Drive Bridge; R.
Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg.The multi-building complex on State Street on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side, directly across from the Loop, opened between 1963 and 1967. [1]
Chicago's Department of Transportation (CDOT) has outlined plans for upcoming lane closures on the Division Street Bridge spanning over the Chicago River.
The bridge carries two railroad tracks across the Chicago River at an angle of about 40 degrees to the center line of the river. Upon completion, the main span could be raised 111 feet (34 m) in about 45 seconds. [3] By 1916, each day the bridge was crossed by about 300 trains, and was raised for river traffic about 75 times. [7]