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The Lethbridge Viaduct, commonly known as the High Level Bridge, is a railway trestle bridge over the Oldman River in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.Constructed between 1907 and 1909 by the Canadian Pacific Railway, it is the largest railway structure in Canada and the largest of its type in the world, and is still regularly maintained and used over a century since its construction.
The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands. Its main span is a 1,017-foot (310 m) steel through arch across Hell Gate , a strait of the East River that separates Wards Island from Queens .
A railway track (CwthE and UIC terminology) or railroad track (NAmE), also known as permanent way (CwthE) [1] or "P Way" (BrE [2] and Indian English), is the structure on a railway or railroad consisting of the rails, fasteners, sleepers (railroad ties in American English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.
I Street Bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak/Union Pacific Railroad and two lanes of State Route 16 between Sacramento and West Sacramento. San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge carried two tracks of Key System between San Francisco and Oakland from 1936 until 1963.
Carried the first train on the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, and is the oldest railway bridge in continuous use in the world: Skew Bridge, Bath: Bath, Somerset: 48.76 m (160.0 ft) 1840; rebuilt 1878: Wrought iron truss: II: Carries Great Western Main Line west from Bath Spa station across the River Avon. Originally built by ...
Temporary track used to avoid an obstacle that blocks movement on the normal track section Shuttle train A train, usually a passenger service, that runs back and forth, usually over a relatively short distance, such as between a junction station and a branch-line terminus. Side tank A tank locomotive with water tanks mounted each side of the ...
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The other survivor is another BNSF bridge located nearby, on the same line and built at the same time, the Oregon Slough Railroad Bridge (also known as BNSF Railway Bridge 8.8). [3] The 9.6 in the name is the distance, in miles, from Portland's Union Station , the same as for Bridge 5.1 (across the Willamette River ) and Bridge 8.8 on the same ...