 The rail bridge, historically known as the 11th Street Bridge, is a single-track vertical-lift truss bridge operated by the Norfolk-Southern Railway and constructed in 1974.The Lorain Police Department was established in 1853 and is comprised of 113 police officers and 34 civilian employees.Lorain is the setting for Lorain-born Toni Morrison's first novel, "The Bluest Eye", where she writes