Canadian Northern Railway Bridge (Prince Albert) |Canadian
Northern Railway Bridge| |Official name||Canadian Northern
Railway Bridge| |Carries||Carlton Trail Railway| |Crosses||North
Saskatchewan River| |Locale||Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,
Canada| |Maintained by||Carlton Trail Railway| |Material||Steel,
wood, concrete| |Total length||341 metres (1,119 ft)| |Piers in
water||8| |Construction begin||September 1907| The bridge was
built by the Canadian Northern Railway between 1907 and 1909
with the superstructure supplied by the Hamilton Bridge Company.
Originally designed as a joint railway and road bridge the
bridge consisted on a center rail line with 12 foot extensions
on each side for traffic, these remained in use until 1960 when
the nearby Diefenbaker Bridge opened. The layout of the bridge
consisted of three 146 foot steel trusses, a 256 foot swing span
truss and two additional 156 fixed trusses. The centre swing
span was used to permit the passage of steam boats on the river
and movement of logs until