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Key Facts |
Bridge Name | Type | Road | Location | City | Crossing |
| Gates Mills Railroad Bridge | Truss | Railroad (Rail-Trail) | Cuyahoga County, OH | Gates Mills | Chagrin River |
The design of this bridge, particularly its narrow width, relate to me that this was once a railroad bridge, although today nothing remains of the tracks, and indeed there are houses built where this rail line must have went, unless it took some very sharp turns. The bridge has been turned into a pedestrian path, complete with ugly integrity-marring wooden railings that look totally out of place on the bridge. The bridge itself is a nice structure, featuring a skew, and v-lacing on the verticals, sway bracing, bottom chord, and some diagonals. Lattice is under the top chord / end post. The structure is a seven panel pin connected Pratt through truss. The bridge rests on stone abutments. The structure was built in 1899 by the New Columbus Bridge Company of Columbus, Ohio.
