Iron Mountain Viaduct

Photos 

The viaduct starts at the Ft. Smith-Van Buren Free Bridge on right, just outside view of this photo, and travels over the Iron Mountain railroad tracks and down into Van Buren. Wagons and automobiles exited the bridge at ground level and had to cross the tracks.

Vintage photo provided by Gene McCluney

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Map 

Facts 

Overview

Lost Deck truss bridge over Iron Mountain Railroad on Streetcar in Van Buren

Location

Van Buren, Crawford County, Arkansas

Status

Replaced by new bridge

Design

Deck truss

Approximate latitude, longitude

+35.43224, -94.35565   (decimal degrees)
35°25'56" N, 94°21'20" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

15/376945/3921822 (zone/easting/northing)

USGS topographic map

Van Buren

Inventory number

BH 38336 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

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Update Log 

• May 13, 2010: Updated by David Backlin: Added approx GPS
• April 8, 2009: New photo from Gene McCluney
• December 7, 2008: Added by Gene McCluney

Sources 

• Gene McCluney - gmacfilm [at] live [dot] com
• David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net

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