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Whitefish Falls Bridge
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The Whitefish Falls bridge is a 100 foot through riveted plate girder bridge.
The bridge is located at about mile 65.7 just to the south of Lawson Quarry.
It is a little less than a mile north of the former CP Whitefish Falls
station. The bridge crosses the southernmost part of the Whitefish
Rive, which at this point drains Frood Lake into the Bay of Islands on
Georgian Bay. The switch leading to the Lawson Quarry spur was located
a few feet north of the bridge. The bridge is built on a slight curve
to the east curve which probably accounts for its greater than normal width
of twenty-two feet. The track here is also on a grade so the bridge
is slightly higher at the north end.
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Looking South along the track |
Access to the bridge is relatively
easy as it is only a few feet east of the Highway 6 bridge. The river
under the bridge
The bridge is most likely an original AER structure. The an article
published in the June 8, 1912 edition of the Engineering record, R.S. McCormick,
Chief Engineer of the AER mentions two 100 foot girder spans. This
is most likely one of them.
In a previous incarnation of this page I made the statement that this bridge
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Whitefish River Under the Bridge |
is not symetical. Upon further investigation I realise that I was fooled
by an optical illusion in looking at a twenty five year old photograph.
There is nothing unusual about this bridge at all, other than the fact that it
is built on a slight grade and the track is curved as it crosses. My apologies
to anyone who was misled by this particular bit of bad information.
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