Rating:
10239
{61}%
2 votes
A&O - Butler Creek Trestle
Description
This bridge was built and owned by the Missouri and North Arkansas Railway. The tracks and likely the decking with, were removed in 1962, a year after trains stopped running.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost wooden railroad trestle over Butler Creek at Beaver
- Location
- Beaver, Carroll County, Arkansas
- Status
- Deck removed, but most wooden piles remain
- Railroads
- - Arkansas & Ozarks Railway (A&O)
- Missouri & North Arkansas Railway (M&NA)
- Design
- Timber stringer
- Also called
- M&NA - Butler Creek Trestle
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.47185, -93.77533 (decimal degrees)
36°28'19" N, 93°46'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/430539/4036565 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Beaver
- Inventory number
- BH 10239 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 25, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Railroad"
- December 26, 2010: Updated by Brian Parkinson: Description added, Categories updated
Sources
- Brian Parkinson - railstoruin [at] yahoo [dot] com
Decking was still in place in 1998, but the east approach had collapsed. This is the bridge that a locomotive and berry car fell into the creek May 15th,1956, when the east approach collapsed under the weight of the locomotive. The bridge number was 73.2.