The Great Northern Railway, running from St. Paul to Seattle, was completed on July 6, 1893 to the general joy of Seattle residents who had been intensely annoyed twenty years earlier when Tacoma was chosen as the terminus of the Northern Pacific Railway. In 1913, in response to the proposed construction of the Ballard Locks, the tracks running north from Interbay were relocated, and this bascule bridge, Bridge #4, with its massive 550 ton concrete counterweight, was built.
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