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Originally Posted by peg
Yes! the Route 90 Swing bridge especially has always been so fascinating to me. The gears and inner workings of the swing and lock mechanism are still intact under the bridge.
I have heard multiple people claim it has never opened and I believe this - but I would love to see a deep dive into the history of this bridge to answer that question!
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I dug into this question a few years ago. I even emailed Alec Katz, the current bridge owner, and he claimed that it had never opened. But I can’t find anything written about that specifically. The bridge opened in 1908, so that would have been well after the end of the riverboat era (1885 according to the link you shared), so I can’t imagine any need for the swing span by 1908.
An interesting fact: before the St James bridge was built, the rail bridge accommodated automobile and other non-rail traffic. That seems hard to imagine.
http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/cnroakpointbridge.shtml