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DeValls Bluff Railroad Bridge

Prairie County, Arkansas
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Photo taken by Ben Tate in April 2012

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Overview
Abandoned Baltimore through truss bridge over White River near DeValls Bluff
Location
DeValls Bluff, Prairie County, Arkansas
Status
Abandoned
History
Built circa 1870; Abandoned 1982
Design
Baltimore through truss
Also called
Rock Island Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+34.79467, -91.44504   (decimal degrees)
34°47'41" N, 91°26'42" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/642252/3851375 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
De Valls Bluff
Inventory number
BH 52311 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,817)
Abandoned (1,366)
Arkansas (1,219)
Baltimore through truss (148)
Baltimore truss (162)
Built during 1870s (544)
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (335)
DeValls Bluff, Arkansas (1)
Have street view (9,880)
 Memphis & Little Rock Railroad (1)
Movable (1,355)
Owned by railroad (4,036)
Prairie County, Arkansas (8)
Railroad (4,055)
Through truss (9,200)
Truss (23,559)
Vertical lift (275)

Update Log 

  • April 30, 2012: Updated by David Backlin: Added category "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad"
  • April 30, 2012: Updated by Clark Vance: Added categories "Chicago Rock Island & Pacific", "Railroad truss", "Railroad bridge"
  • April 30, 2012: Added by Ben Tate

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Sources 

  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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DeValls Bluff Railroad Bridge
Posted May 2, 2012, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

I uploaded a new version with minor improvements and corrections tonight. Sometime I intend to do a larger update and add even more content.

DeValls Bluff Railroad Bridge
Posted May 1, 2012, by Ben Tate (benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Thanks, Nathan. Those slides are very helpful.

DeValls Bluff Railroad Bridge
Posted May 1, 2012, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

This looks to me that this might be one of those bridges that looks like a Baltimore but follows the Warren design.

That reminds me that I have some updates and corrections to make to those slides. I will work on that and post an announcement when the new ones are up.

DeValls Bluff Railroad Bridge
Posted April 30, 2012, by Ben Tate (benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Thanks. I changed it to a Baltimore truss. I'm still learning the different types. I need to spend more time looking over Nathan's Historic Bridges Crash Course slides. :)

DeValls Bluff Railroad Bridge
Posted April 30, 2012, by Clark Vance (cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com)

Two questions here: First, is this a Baltimore truss rather than Warren? Second, although the documentation on the old US 70 bridge downstream states the CRI&P built a bridge here in 1870, do the I-beams on this bridge look newer than that era?