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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
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How did they open the bridge for ships to pass? (That photo is photoshopped) Did they just pull the middle sections off to the side with tug boats or something?
Before the pontoon bridge was installed there was the bascule or "jackknife" train bridge to Terminal Island, built in 1908 (photo circa 1910), which was removed in the 1930s after the railroad stopped using it. Not sure how much time elapsed between the removal of this bridge and the installation of the pontoon bridge. Before this bridge, the very first bridge from Long Beach to Terminal Island was a 19th century single-track train bridge on a wooden trestle built by the Salt Lake Railway.
http://portoflongbeach.blogspot.com/...nd-part-1.html
The railroad didn't need the Jackknife bridge anymore because of the new Badger Avenue Bridge to the north, seen here in the 1920s before it was replaced by the Henry Ford Bridge.
http://portoflongbeach.blogspot.com/...nd-part-2.html
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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
There was a North-South road connection to T.I. that utilized the railroad drawbridge.
This is the Northside lift bridge.
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That's actually two separate bridges right next to each other, the earlier Henry Ford train lift bridge that replaced the Badger Avenue Bridge, and the slightly newer Commodore Schuyler F. Helm lift bridge which carries State Route 47 and the southern end of the 103 Terminal Island Freeway. I've heard rumors that the Terminal Island Freeway north of there is apparently being removed now.
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