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Cherry Creek Trail Bridge (Wynkoop Street)
Photos
Wynkoop Street Railroad Bridge
Quarter view
Photo taken by Bob Morgan in February 2009
BH Photo #152909
Description
Built in 1907-08 for the Denver and Rio Grande RR. Now serves as pedestrian bridge in downtown Denver crossing Cherry Creek at the southwest end of Wynkoop Street.Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Cherry Creek on pedestrian pathway
- Location
- Denver, Denver County, Colorado
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1907 by the Pennsylvania Steel Company
- Railroad
- - Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad (DRGW)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.75005, -105.00343 (decimal degrees)
39°45'00" N, 105°00'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/499706/4400015 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Arvada
- Inventory number
- BH 43914 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 4, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
- January 20, 2010: Updated by Joshua Collins: added gps coordinates
- January 18, 2010: Added by Bob Morgan
Sources
- Bob Morgan - morgans212 [at] att [dot] net
- Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Cherry Creek Trail Bridge (Wynkoop Street)
You have conflated two different bridges here.
Images 1 and 2 are of the north* Wewatta St bridge, which carried the D&RGW main line across Cherry Creek to/from Denver Union Station. Image 2 was taken from the Wynkoop St bridge.
Images 3 through 8 are of the Wynkoop St bridge, which carried a D&RGW switching spur north across Cherry Creek to run along Wynkoop St.
(*The south Wewatta St bridge was removed. It carried the C&S main line across Cherry Creek to/from Denver Union Station.)
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Sorry, I mixed up the compas direction of the Wewatta St bridges: The C&S bridge (removed) was to the north, the D&RGW bridge (existing) was to the south.