Palm Beach County, Florida Bridges: Camino Real Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway (4)

December 2012 (26.3395 Degrees, -80.0772 Degrees) Camino Real Bridge

To open the bridge, the operator must close the gates and turn on the motors that move the counterweighted ends of the bascule spans into their wells (under the steel plates). The deck of the movable spans are made of steel grating to reduce their weight.

This bridge has several nice details: the concrete ballustrade rails on the approach spans, the ornamented lamp posts, and the Spanish tiles on the operator's house (the houses usually have architectural flourishes that reflect the styles that were in vogue when the bridge was built).

Palm Beach County, Florida Bridges: Camino Real Bridge across the Intracoastal Waterway (4) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.