bigbrian24

E 37th st. RTA station, I-77 kingsbury run bridge being built in the background.

Penn central wreck at bridge 1 , 1974. James Marcus photo

October 1977, James Marcus photo

1982

1979 , Eric Hirsimaki photo

July 1972 ,B&O railroad crossing bridge 473 heading northbound to the lake. The old powerhouse is to the left. James Marcus photo

January 1979, Amtrak southbound over the Clark branch. Carter rd is the green bridge. The state building is behind the train nearing the end of construction. (The black building)Photo by James Marcus

Inside the terminal

Cleveland union terminal

No, I’m pretty sure that was the Nickel plate road your thinking of.

Nickel plate passenger train East Cleveland station. 1950s

Woodland,East 55th,Kinsman ave. Intersection. 1940s streetcar is on the 55th line.

Interlocking tower near the lakefront where the flats east bank is now.

East Cleveland station for the Nickel Plate. And New York Central railroads. Being pulled by a Cleveland Union Terminal P1a electric locomotive.

Linndale Big Four roundhouse. Western end of the Cleveland Union Terminal electrification.

10 AM on September 28, 1955, the new New York Central Bridge opened at a cost of $3 million. The new vertical lift span, which contained 1,410 tons of structural steel, increased the vertical clearance another 80 feet. The project received the American Institute of Steel Construction Award of Merit for the most beautiful bridge in its class. The electrical contractors were Dingle-Clark and the steel fabricators were McDowell Wellman. Under the River and Harbor Act of 1946, the federal government financed most of the cost of the new bridge as part of a $50 million river and harbor improvement project. The new crossing had a vertical clearance of 260 feet and a clear channel of 200 feet, and the lifting mechanism was worked by two 135 horsepower motors at the top of the two girders. Built in 1953 to replace an older, narrow, double track Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge, this bridge carried the New York Central Railroad until its merger with Penn Central. Following the collapse of Penn Central, ownership was transferred to Conrail. In the mid to late 1980s, the bridge was abandoned as rail traffic had declined in Cleveland. The bridge was sold to the City of Cleveland for 1 U.S. Dollar. The bridge has now been persevered, abandoned, in the raised position to allow lake freighters, the U.S. Coast Gaurd, Cleveland Fire, and other pleasure craft to traverse the very active Cuyahoga River. Very few photos exist of this bridge in service. The south east end of the bridge connected to DK yard, a once thriving rail yard located on the Oxbow Bend Penninsula of the Cuyahoga River. According to sources who worked with the Railroad, the lift bridge at the mouth of the Cuyahoga was condidered DB 1, or DB. this bridge was considered DB 2, as it was the second vertical lift bridge owned by the New York Central at the time. Also located at the Southeast corner of the bridge is the OX tower, now abandoned. OX tower controlled the raising and lowering of this lift bridge.

Built 1910 to replace a swing bridge. Nickel plate road lift bridge was replaced by the vertical lift bridge that is still used by the Norfolk southern railroad today in the late 1950s.

Main Avenue swing bridge.

Original iron curtain railroad swing bridge built over the mouth of the cuyahoga. Erected 1867

Harvard Denison rd. Viaduct original bridge built 1910. Replaced in 1978. Harshaw chemical bottom right of pic. Processed uranium for the government for atom bombs from the 1940s to the 1960s.