Niagara Cantilever Bridge
Description:
The Canadian Southern or Michigan Central Cantilever Bridge was built in 1883 by the Central Bridge Works of Buffalo and engineer Charles Conrad Schneider. This double-track railway bridge of steel and wrought iron was commissioned by the Vanderbilt family who owned the Canadian Southern and Michigan Central Railroad lines and had the bridge built to compete with the Great Western and Grand Trunk Railway which had the use of the Roebling Railway Suspension Bridge. It was replaced in 1925 by a steel arch bridge still in place today. For more information see: Spanning Niagara: The International Bridges 1848-1962 (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1984).
Date Issued:
1883; replaced 1925
Institution:
University of Michigan Library
Collection:
Art, Architecture and Engineering Library, Lantern Slide Collection
Language:
UND
Type:
still image