“Echoes Of The Past
60 YEARS AGO
(From the Spectator files of Thursday, April 23, 1896)
Residents of the Beach are anxious to know when the new-bridge over the canal will be ready. The masonry has been completed for some time, but no word has been received about the steel superstructure. Major Gray, government engineer, said today he was positive that the bridge would be finished by the busy season. He said the Dominion Bridge Company, of Montreal had been delayed by about a month in getting steel from England.”
Scott did the steel for the 1896 road swing bridge, really come from England? Your quote from Charles Cooper in the ‘Burlington Canal Bridges’ thread, indicates that the 1877 Hamilton and Northwestern railroad bridge, was built by the Hamilton Bridge Company.
http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-2173.html
And while there is nothing on where the steel came from, my assumsion, was that it came from Hamilton.
60 YEARS AGO
(From the Spectator files of Thursday, April 23, 1896)
Residents of the Beach are anxious to know when the new-bridge over the canal will be ready. The masonry has been completed for some time, but no word has been received about the steel superstructure. Major Gray, government engineer, said today he was positive that the bridge would be finished by the busy season. He said the Dominion Bridge Company, of Montreal had been delayed by about a month in getting steel from England.”
Scott did the steel for the 1896 road swing bridge, really come from England? Your quote from Charles Cooper in the ‘Burlington Canal Bridges’ thread, indicates that the 1877 Hamilton and Northwestern railroad bridge, was built by the Hamilton Bridge Company.
http://hamiltonbeachcommunity.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-2173.html
And while there is nothing on where the steel came from, my assumsion, was that it came from Hamilton.