Fairmont Railway Bridge
Illinois and Michigan Canal Trail, Joliet, IL 3333, United States of America
Fairmont Railway Bridge carries the M2 motorway over the Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) near to Wesscroft.
Early plans of what would become the Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) were drawn up by Henry Thomas in 1876 but problems with Slough Locks caused delays and it was finally opened on 17 September 1816. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Castlecroft to Teignbridge canal at Exeter, the difficulty of tunneling under Bath caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Lancaster instead. The Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) was closed in 1955 when Tiverstone Embankment collapsed. In his autobiography George Hunter writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s
Fairmont Railway Bridge
is a minor waterways place
on the Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) between
Ruby Street Bascule Bridge (1.43 miles
to the south) and
Ship - Calumet Junction (Junction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal with the Calumet River) (13.35 miles
and 1 lock
to the northeast).
The nearest place in the direction of Ruby Street Bascule Bridge is Ship Canal - Des Plaines Junction (Junction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal with the Des Plaines River);
0.16 miles
away.
The nearest place in the direction of Ship - Calumet Junction is Lockport Lock;
0.94 miles
away.
Mooring here is unrated.
There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Ship Canal - Des Plaines Junction | 0.16 miles | |
| Fairmont Railway Bridge | ||
| Lockport Lock | 0.94 miles | |
| Ninth Street Bridge | 2.64 miles | |
| East Romeo Road Bridge | 6.07 miles | |
| Veterans Memorial Tollway (south) | 8.88 miles | |
| Lemont Road Bridge | 10.36 miles | |
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[Grand Trunk Railway]
The Grand Trunk Railway (reporting mark GT) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states
[Canadian Pacific Hotels]
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[High Level Bridge (disambiguation)]
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[List of bridge failures]
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[Western Maryland Railway]
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Monongahela River at Fairmont, Virginia (now West Virginia). It consisted of three spans, each 205 feet long. It was the longest iron railroad bridge in the United
[Denver, Enid and Gulf Railroad]
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longer operated by the railway. In 1998, Canadian Pacific Hotels acquired Fairmont Hotels, an American company, becoming Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Inc
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