Road-rail Bridges - United States

United States

California
  • I Street Bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak/Union Pacific Railroad and two lanes of State Route 16 between Sacramento and West Sacramento.
  • San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge carried two tracks of Key System between San Francisco and Oakland from 1936 until 1963.
Florida
  • Acosta Bridge - Carries two monorail tracks for the JTA Skyway and six lanes of State Road 13 in Jacksonville.
Illinois
  • McKinley Bridge - rail removed in 1978.
Iowa - Illinois
  • Fort Madison Toll Bridge - rail on lower deck, road on upper deck
  • Government Bridge - rail on upper deck, road on lower deck, swing-span bridge
  • Keokuk Rail Bridge - rail on lower deck, disused road on upper deck, swing-span bridge above Lock and Dam No. 19.
Louisiana
  • Almonaster Avenue Bridge - Bascule drawbridge in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Florida Avenue Bridge - Vertical lift drawbridge in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Huey P. Long Bridge - Truss bridge in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
  • Huey P. Long Bridge - Truss bridge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • St. Claude Avenue Bridge - former road and rail bridge, nowadays it serves automotive and pedestrian traffic. New Orleans
Kentucky
  • Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Bridge - Truss bridge between Louisville, Kentucky and New Albany, Indiana over the Ohio River. Road portion closed in 1979 when roadway collapsed under an overweight truck.
Michigan
  • Portage Lake Lift Bridge connecting Hancock and Houghton. The world's heaviest and largest double deck vertical lift bridge. 4-lane road on upper deck, rail on lower deck (converted to trail). The lower deck was also paved so the bridge could be placed in an intermediate position to allow road traffic only.
Minnesota
  • Oliver Bridge connecting Duluth, Minnesota and Oliver, Wisconsin. Rail on upper deck, road on lower deck.
Missouri
  • Second Hannibal Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri across the Missouri River. Opened in 1917, had a road deck until 1956, when another bridge was built, but the rail deck is presently in use. Evidence of the road deck is still plainly visible.
  • ASB Bridge in Kansas City, Missouri, across the Missouri River. Opened in 1911, it carried vehicular traffic until 1987, when new span was built. Bridge is unique that lower part is a vertical lift drawbridge, while without interrupting traffic on the upper deck.
  • Eads Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri across the Mississippi River. Opened in 1874. It carries the road traffic on the upper deck and the St. Louis MetroLink on the lower deck.
Ohio
  • Clay Wade Bailey Bridge/C&O Railroad Bridge - Cincinnati, Ohio to Newport, Kentucky over the Ohio River. (Technically, these are two separate bridges, but they are spaced very closely adjacent to each other and built on common piers.)
New York
  • Broadway Bridge - Road and elevated subway (the 1 line) bridge in New York City
  • Manhattan Bridge - Road and elevated subway (B, D, N, Q lines) bridge in New York City
  • Williamsburg Bridge - Road and elevated subway (J, M, Z lines) bridge in New York City
  • Whirlpool Rapids Bridge, Niagara Falls, New York, carries passenger rail on the upper level, commuter autos on the lower level between Ontario and New York
Pennsylvania
  • Benjamin Franklin Bridge - Suspension bridge carrying I-676 and PATCO Speedline trains between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey.
Massachusetts
  • Longfellow Bridge - Four lane road with two subway tracks running down the centre of the bridge connecting Boston and Cambridge over the Charles River.
Oregon
  • Steel Bridge - A through truss, double lift bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon Carrying pedestrian, rail, automobile, bus, MAX Light Rail and vintage streetcar making it one of the most multi-modal bridges in the world.
Virginia
  • High Bridge (Appomattox River)

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