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TITLE:
Calumet-Sag Channel Bridges, Caulmet-Sag Channel, Blue Island vicinity, Cook County, IL
CALL NUMBER:
HAER ILL, 16-BLIS. V, 1-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 7 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 2 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
NOTE:
Survey number HAER IL-121
Building/structure dates: 1935 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1964 subsequent work
Significance: All five bridges are identical to one another and employ double tracks, except for the center bridge, which has only a single track. The Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad and the Baltimore & Chicago Terminal Railroad rail bridges are adjacent to each other on the western side of the group, while the three bridges to the east are the property of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad. The bridges are steel, fixed span through bridges with Pratt trusses. Members are connected by riveted gusset plates with plates and angles forming I-beams. There are concrete piers and abutments. Each bridge has one main span about 200' long. Bridges have concrete retainer walls and fenders. There is a concrete culvert west of bridges on north bank.
SUBJECTS:
ILLINOIS--Cook County--Blue Island vicinity
OTHER TITLE:
Illinois & Michigan Canal National Heritage Corrid
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.il0731
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. OBLIQUE VIEW OF ALL FIVE BRIDGES
2. TWO WEST SPANS (INDIANA HARBOR BELT AND BALTIMORE AND CHICAGO RAILROADS) FROM WEST TRACKBED
3. GENERAL VIEW OF WEST PORTAL, WEST SPAN
4. DETAIL OF SOUTH PORTAL, WEST TRUSS, LOOKING NORTH
5. VIEW OF BRIDGES WITH TRAIN FROM SOUTHEAST LOOKING NORTHWEST
6. WESTERNMOST BRIDGE VIEWED FROM BELOW, LOOKING NORTHWEST
7. DETAIL OF BRIDGE SUPPORT
CONTROL #:
IL0731
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