he Skansen Bridge (Norwegian: Skansen jernbanebro) is a 52-meter span bascule railway bridge located at Skansen in Trondheim, Norway. Skansen Bridge was designed by structural engineer Joseph Strauss, who among other things also constructed the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The Strauss designed single-leaf iron truss railway bridge with overhead counterweight provides clearance for boat traffic. This type of bridge has a counterweight suspended in a parallelogram, as well as motors and gears to lift and lower the end of the bridge
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