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| Key Facts |
| Bridge Name | Facility Carried / Feature Intersected | Location | Structure Type | Construction Date and Builder/Engineer | |
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Flats Industrial Railroad Bridge
Cuyahoga River Bridge #8 | Railroad (Flats Industrial Railroad) Over Cuyahoga River | Cleveland: Cuyahoga County, Ohio | Metal 10 Panel Rivet-Connected Warren Through Truss, Movable: Vertical Lift (Tower Drive) | 1953 By Builder/Contractor: Mount Vernon Bridge Company of Mount Vernon, Ohio and Engineer/Design: Howard, Needles, Tammen and Bergendorff |
| Technical Facts |
| Structure Length | Main Spans |
| 260 Feet (79.2 Meters) | 1 |
Compared to most vertical lift bridges, this structure features very small towers. A heavy plate girder-like structure acts as a brace between the two towers, which likely provides rigidity to the towers. The substructure of this bridge was built by Bates and Rogers Construction of Chicago, Illinois, a company run by noteworthy engineers including Onward Bates, a former engineer of railroad bridges. The Cleveland firm, McDowell Company erected the bridge. The electrical contractor was Dingle-Clark.
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