CP Railway Swing Bridge in Peterborough

Canadian Pacific Railway Swing Bridge in Peterborough, Ontario.
The Peterborough train swing bridge is a historic bridge that crosses the Trent-Severn Waterway in Peterborough, Ontario. It was built in 1898 by the Central Bridge and Engineering Company of Peterborough, Ontario.
The bridge has been a part of Peterborough's infrastructure for many years, and it holds historical significance. It has undergone various upgrades and maintenance over time to preserve its functionality and safety. ‪@RVGTravelVlogs‬
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[@allieanacalanocvlogs5442]

Wow ang galing nang tuLay naiikot pala sya 😍😍, kaya pwede maka Daan ang boat

[@Moxy770]

Peterborough is a Exellent Place ..LuV going to the locks , Chapters & mostly Long & McQuade Music ..Lansdown has everything ya need ...that Swing Bridge is really cool and when the trains goes its wild feeling ...Peterborough Rocksss !!!!!...thanx

[@iamkaira423]

Amazing. It’s manually operated too. Thanks for sharing kuya❤️

[@opathe2nd973]

I remember coming through Pborough on our boat and we stayed there for several days and do not remember the bridges. Thanks for the memories but have to check out our pictures of the time there. Video well done!

[@GEMsFLightTV]

Masarap siguro sumakay dyan.

[@alexiade]

Wow, watching sir, ang haba nman hehe, ang galing

[@allieanacalanocvlogs5442]

Tamslove 2., Ganda😂 tanawin po sir 😍😍 Watching from Cavite 🇵🇭

[@6060don]

This is awesome I saw this operation when I lived in Peterborough in the 1970's . What engineering.

[@geoffreylee5199]

That line was the mainline from Ottawa to Toronto as part of the Ontario and Quebec Railway.

[@stephensaines7100]

Exactly.

[@indaymelngusa]

Wow ganda nman dyan

[@cheesyrider6914]

In the 70's that bridge was the main swimming area .We would jump from the top of the bridge.We even helped turn the bridge with the workers. RIP Benny

[@rjb5847]

that stuff won't be possible with high speed rail, should it ever happen. The "good old days" are gone.

[@davidfuller4487]

This bridge is on the Kawartha Lakes Railway (a division of Canadian Pacific Railway) on a line that goes from Toronto through Peterborough, to Havelock, and ends at Nephton,Ontario. It doesn't go to Lindsay.

[@stephensaines7100]

I was about to post same. It's more than a trivial point, as this is the route most touted as being Canada's first High Speed Rail route. The line to Lindsay later became part of the CN network.

[@alexiade]

First thumbs up sir Ricky. Regards from Macau

[@arrjay2410]

I live not far from the bridge. While I've seen the train go through on numerous occasions, I've never seen the railway bridge opening and closing. Thank you.

[@DumbHusky]

i didnt expect to see a video on a bridge that i pass every other day, remember getting my liscense and having to get to my dads farm quickly (south side of town) and hearing the train was coming and racing to the other road before the lights went on,

[@robertsmeal8193]

Super cool😮. Great video. Two thumbs up 👍

[@RVGTravelVlogs]

Thank you so much🤗

[@wolftrainservicesltd6418]

I remember when cn and cp used to be around peterborough. And trains came from montreal on cp rail. I remeber taking the bud car from havelock to toronto.

[@treynolds94]

I lived right beside the tracks one street down on Rogers. ❤

[@mikeklinger1712]

The train bridge seems like quite a project to get that moving

[@MisatoBestWoman]

Truly amazing incredible pieces of engineering!

[@GEMsFLightTV]

Double purpose. SA Netherland Naman road at I manual operation din itataas ang road para mkadaan Naman ang boat

[@GEMsFLightTV]

Manual operation , nkakahilo ang ikot Ng operator.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

When I was a kid, almost all the locks and dams were operated by a guy walking in circles or turning a handcrank. They've made a lot of stuff electric and hydraulic now and replaced the "stop logs" on the dams with steel gates.

[@GWNorth-db8vn]

My old neighborhood. I've driven past that bridge a thousand times and never seen it move. My family came to Ontario to work on the Trent canal system My great-grandfather was an ironworker on the lift lock, and one of his brothers was the first man to spend a night in the Peterborough jail. The bridge is cool, but the amount of labor that went into cutting that canal out of solid limestone is staggering. The entire system is like that when you view it that way. All the sheer cliffs you see beside the water were cut by men. Even the bottoms of the river sections are massive amounts of work. They cleared the channel by moving the rocks to about twenty feet from shore, and they're still there like long reefs. They built the dams for each section first, then shut off the water and drained the whole section so men and horses could work on the bottom. I've seen the section I lived on drained a few times to work on something. You wake up and the river's gone. It took about forty years to build the whole system, and trains and trucks had taken over from barges by then.

[@Captain_Char]

Niagara had one in chippawa back in the day

[@allieanacalanocvlogs5442]

Chuuuu..chuuuu... 🚂🚃🚃🚃

[@ronparrish6666]

They keep talking about VIA using the Havelock line to go from Toronto to Ottawa some day is this the track they would use if it ever gets done

[@rjb5847]

Yes, with major track upgrades west of Havelock & relaying the entire line est of Havelock to Glen Tay.

[@stephensaines7100]

Yes.

[@chongjie9573]

[@iansinclair521]

There's another very like it not far upstream at Trent University on the branch to Lakeville -- long abandoned.

[@johnmclaughlin9671]

There is no "Lakeville" north of Trent but there is a Lakefield.

[@geoffreylee5199]

LAKEFIELD!!!

[@erie910]

It's unusual that a swing bridge has its center on land. Clearly, the waterway is too narrow for the bridge to be centered in water.

[@poochie49]

Aren' Isn't the waterway closed at this time of year? if so why are they swinging the bridge open?

[@rickprobst7555]

can do without the music though id love to Hear the mechanics of the bridge better

[@izznice6969]

You could do without the annoying music

[@cooknisir8763]

You can turn down the volume or mute

[@stretch6231]

Mute.