Jackknife Bascule Bridge
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Jackknife Bascule Bridge | |
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| File:Jackknife Bascule Bridge Thunder Bay Ontario.JPG The Jackknife Bridge in May 2008 | |
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| Crosses | Kaministiquia River |
| Locale | Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada |
| Maintained by | Canadian Pacific Railway |
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| Design | Bascule |
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| Opened | April 1913 |
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The Jackknife (or Jack-knife) Bascule Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Kaministiquia River at Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, to link the city to Mission Island, one of two islands in the Kaministiquia River delta. The bridge was built by the Canadian Pacific Railway between August 1910 and April 1913. The contractor for the abutments and piers was Alexander Charles Stewart (1867–1944). The bridge had two decks, the lower deck for trains and the upper deck for vehicular road traffic.
The vehicular portion of the bridge was replaced by the Island Drive Bridge, which connects neighbouring McKellar Island to the mainland, in 2003. The connecting roadways and upper deck of the Jackknife Bridge were dismantled in 2004, but the lower deck continues to function as the only rail link to the islands.
General overview
[edit | edit source]The Jackknife Bascule Bridge has a road width of 29 feet (or 8.84 metres. The length of the entire bridge is 374 feet (or 114 metres) in size. [1]
See also
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- Canadian Pacific Railway bridges in Canada
- Railway bridges in Ontario
- Bridges completed in 1913
- Buildings and structures in Thunder Bay
- Bascule bridges in Canada
- Transport in Thunder Bay
- 1913 establishments in Ontario
- Canadian bridge (structure) stubs
- Ontario building and structure stubs
- Ontario transport stubs