FEC Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge

FEC Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge
FEC Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge
	Florida East Coast Railway bascule bridge in Jacksonville, Florida
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Carries	2 tracks of the Florida East Coast Railway
Crosses	St. Johns River
Locale	Jacksonville, Florida
Maintained by	Florida East Coast Railway
Characteristics
Design	Simple truss bridge with bascule lift span, plate girder approaches
History
Designer	Joseph Strauss
Opened	1925

The FEC Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge is a double track railroad bridge spanning the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, Florida.

Completed in 1925 by the Florida East Coast Railway, this structure replaced a single-track swing bridge which opened on January 5, 1890. The current structure is a simple truss bridge with plate girder approaches and a bascule lift allowing ships to pass. It runs immediately next to the Acosta Bridge.

A 1992 map of the FEC bridge (immediately next to the Acosta Bridge)

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v t e Bridges and tunnels in Florida
Panhandle	Escambia Bay Garcon Point John Gorrie Mid-Bay Pensacola Bay St. George Island Trammell Victory
North	Acosta Bridge of Lions Main Street Buckman Dames Point Fuller Warren Hart Mathews Memorial Strauss Trunnion Little Lake Harris Herman C. McCray Jr. L.E. Buie
West Central	Bayside Clearwater Memorial Courtney Campbell Gandy Howard Frankland Pinellas Bayway Sunshine Skyway Treasure Island
East Central	A. Max Brewer Alma Lee Loy Astor Bennett Bert Dosh Broadway Eau Gallie Granada Lake Jesup Lake Underhill Melbourne Merrill P. Barber Merritt Island Mid-Bay Bridge NASA Osteen Pete Damon Pineda Port Orange Roosevelt Sebastian Inlet Wabasso Whitehair
South	Blue Heron Broad Coral Springs^† Flagler Memorial Julia Tuttle John F. Kennedy Lehman MacArthur Rickenbacker Royal Park Snow-Reed^‡ Thomas B. Manuel Venetian
Southwest	Blackburn Point Bridge^‡ Boca Grande^‡ Bonita Beach Caloosahatchee Cape Coral Edison John Ringling Matanzas Pass Midpoint Sanibel S.S. Jolley
Keys	Bahia Honda Card Sound Jewfish Creek Long Key Overseas Highway Seven Mile
Tunnels	Henry E. Kinney Port of Miami
Ferries	Drayton Island Fort Gates Mayport
Lists	List of bridges in Florida List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Florida List of movable bridges in Florida
^† – Covered bridge ^‡ – Swing bridge

v t e St. Johns River crossings in the Jacksonville, Florida area
Upriver from Downtown	Shands Buckman Timuquana
Downtown Jacksonville	Fuller Waren FEC Strauss Trunnion Acosta Main Street Hart Mathews 20th Street Extension
Downriver from Downtown	Dames Point State Road 113A Mayport Ferry
Italics indicate a bridge was never built.