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    The CSX Railroad Bridge in Tampa, Florida, is adjacent to the Cass Street Bridge and was built in 1915.  The City of Tampa website features a description of the city's historic bridges across the Hillsborough River, and notes of this one that it was built to provide access to Port Tampa.  This should be compared with comparable bascule bridges, such as the one in Mystic, Connecticut, featured on this site.  This is a rolling lift bascule bridge, with the counterweight rotating on the visible track, as opposed to being raised or lowered by rotating around an axis.  The bridgetender's cabin is also featured.