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A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that can be rotated horizontally around a vertical axis. It has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its center of gravity, about which the swing span (turning span) can then pivot horizontally as shown in the animated illustration to the right.
The simple suspension bridge is the oldest known type of suspension bridge and, ignoring the possibility of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact, there were at least two independent inventions of the simple suspension bridge, in the wider Himalaya region and South America. [7] 18th-century rope bridge in Srinagar, Garhwal Kingdom
Cedar Avenue Bridge (Minnesota River) Chef Menteur Bridge; Cherry Avenue Bridge; Chicago and North Western Railroad Bridge; Cincinnati Southern Bridge; City Island Bridge; Clay Street Bridge; Clinton Railroad Bridge; Court Street Bridge (Hackensack River) Crescent Rail Bridge; CSX Chef Menteur Pass Bridge; CSX Rigolets Pass Bridge
A moveable bridge, or movable bridge, is a bridge that moves to allow passage for boats [1] or barges. [2] In American English, the term is synonymous with drawbridge , and the latter is the common term, but drawbridge can be limited to the narrower, historical definition used in some other forms of English, in which drawbridge refers to only a ...
The swing bridge raises to clear the fixed span and land abutment's scarfed rail joints and to also clear the fixed overhead conductor rails, which are gantry mounted to the swing bridge and the approach spans. The bridge "slew" is provided by 2 hydraulic motors driving against the main slewing ring bearing, manufactured by Robello.
The bridge carries Highway 6 (formerly Highway 68) across a narrow channel separating Manitoulin Island from the much smaller Goat Island, forming the only land access.It consists of two 21 m (70 ft) deck plate girder approaches on the north end (Goat Island) and a single 18 m (60 ft) deck plate girder approach on the south end (Manitoulin Island), with a 112 m (368 ft) through swing bridge span.
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The bridge is the western terminus of Illinois Route 9 which continues eastwards towards Canton, Illinois, about 80 miles (130 km), and Peoria, about 100 miles (160 km). Iowa Highway 2 formerly reached the bridge from the west. On July 26, 1927, operations were transferred from the original single-track bridge to the current double-track bridge.