Miami St Bridge Toledo/NS

[jimnorthwood]

Many of you have probably watched and/or photographed trains from this bridge, which crosses the NS Water Level Route. As the nearby NS drawbridge over the Maumee River will need to be replaced some year, the north abutment of the new Miami Street bridge will be positioned to allow for eventual construction of a new track that would presumably tie in to a future NS bridge. http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2015/1 ... -work.html

Speaking of the drawbridge, this was a presentation at a TMACOG meeting a couple of years ago. While some parts of it may seem pie in the sky, and some just factually wrong (no ship that is 100 feet wide has ever traversed this upper stretch of navigable limits on the Maumee, and never will, etc) there is no doubt that the drawbridge is a critical point on the system. Ships have run into it more than once, and any extended outage would probably result in significant headaches for NS: http://www.slideshare.net/jwicks99/maum ... ainday2015

[railohio]

But will it get a pedestrian walkway on the river side...

[MDH]

But will it get a pedestrian walkway on the river side...

Supposedly "no" - but also no fence on that side. Have to wait & see though what actually plays out.