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Re: Water!

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beachlion wrote: Sat Mar 07, 2020 7:02 pmWhat about the famous Pegasus Bridge that rolled to open.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Bridge
That is precisely the type that carried the rails in from the south of Boston into Boston South Station Terminal. Three of 'em to be precise, each carrying two tracks.

A mounted fragment of one partial side of one span exists as a tribute to the scheme. The active tracks all travel now on fixed-span girder bridges.
With the many waterways in the Netherlands, every type of bridge imaginable will be found in abundance or has been in use for some time in the past.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Hef
Also lifting bridges like this one in Rotterdam. Sorry, not available in English so you have to convert the dimensions yourself.
Some digging revealed some translations. Sadly, my command of Dutch is so limited that I could only glean the coarsest of details from the text. I need to expend some energy in that realm.
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