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An open-deck railway bridge in Leflore County, Mississippi. A railway bridge with its track and ties supported on load carrying elements of the superstructure (floor beams, stringers or girders) is called an open deck. When the track rests upon ballast, which is then carried by the superstructure of the bridge, it is called a ballasted deck.
The Chenab Rail Bridge is a steel and concrete arch bridge carrying a single ... Key technical data of the bridge include: [13] Deck height: above river bed - 359 m ...
The Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge, listed as the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge on the National Register of Historic Places, is a double-deck steel truss railroad bridge spanning the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The upper deck carries the Fort Wayne Line with two tracks of Norfolk Southern and Amtrak traffic. The lower deck is unused.
In the deck-type bridge, a wood, steel or reinforced concrete bridge deck is supported on top of two or more plate girders, and may act compositely with them. In the case of railroad bridges, the railroad ties themselves may form the bridge deck, or the deck may support ballast on which the track is laid.
The deck height of a bridge is the maximum vertical drop distance between the bridge deck (the road, rail or other transport bed of a bridge) and the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span. Deck height is different from structural height, which is a measure of the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as ...
Lake Street Bridge – rail on upper deck (CTA Green & Pink Line) road on lower deck, bascule bridge. McKinley Bridge – rail removed in 1978. Wells Street Bridge – rail on upper deck (CTA Brown & Purple Line Express), road on lower deck, bascule bridge. Iowa – Illinois. Fort Madison Toll Bridge – rail on lower deck, road on upper deck
A double-track railway occupies the lower deck of the bridge, while two lanes of road traffic are carried on the upper deck. The bridge is about 1 mile (1.6 km) long with a swing span of 525 feet (160 m), and was the longest and largest double-deck swing-span bridge in the world when constructed in 1927. [3] It replaced an inadequate ...
Railway bridge Ship collision 177 killed, unknown injured No collapse The span cut the deck house and the cinema hall, whilst the lowest deck was undamaged. The ship damaged the railway bridge and some freight cars from the train fell onto the ship. Mianus River Bridge: Greenwich, Connecticut: United States 28 June 1983