IANR - Beaver Creek Bridge
Photos
North View
The area around the bridge is a gigantic swamp, so I had to walk in a big detour to the south to be able to reach the tracks.
Photo taken by Dylan VanAntwerp in April 2013
BH Photo #252790
Description
The 1973 RI track chart has incomplete and incorrect information for this bridge. It only lists a 127ft truss span, completely omitting the approaches. The length is also way off, as the actual span length is 175ft.Facts
- Overview
- Warren through truss bridge over Beaver Creek on Iowa Northern Railroad
- Location
- Black Hawk County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1927
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroads
- - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRIP (1866-1920); RI (1920-1975) ROCK (1975-1980))
- Iowa Northern Railway (IANR)
- Design
- 3 Panel Ballasted Deck Pile Trestle
1 - 175' Subdivided Warren through truss
3 Panel Ballasted Deck Pile Trestle - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 175.0 ft.
Total length: 265.0 ft.
- Also called
- IANR Bridge #160.5
Rock Island Bridge #1605 - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.56880, -92.50088 (decimal degrees)
42°34'08" N, 92°30'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/540965/4713053 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Hartford
- Inventory number
- BH 51929 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 26, 2016: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Added/corrected info
- September 11, 2013: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Added info from track chart
- April 26, 2013: New photos from Dylan VanAntwerp
- April 25, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added build date & builder.
- April 25, 2013: New photos from Dylan VanAntwerp
- April 17, 2013: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Added categories "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad", "Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway"
- October 6, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added infor and changed name
- April 4, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Chicago & North Western Railway", "Union Pacific Railroad", "Iowa Northern Railroad"
- April 3, 2012: Added by Jason Smith
Related Bridges
- RI - Soap Creek Bridge (Same design)
- UP - Des Moines River Bridge (Hartford Avenue) (Same design)
- IANR - Shell Rock River Bridge (Clarksville) (Same design)
- ISRY - Chariton River Bridge (Same design)
Sources
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Luke
- Dylan VanAntwerp - dylan_vanantwerp [at] live [dot] com
- Historic Bridges of Iowa
Comments
It auto-fills with that for anything from the DOT's address. Probably associated with the historic bridge survey they did years ago.
I added a link to an interesting PDF file that contains an application Iowa Northern put together several years ago in attempt to attain TIGER funding for the rebuilding or replacing of bridges along its line. Every bridge that needed major repairs or needed replaced along the entire length of the railroad is listed in this application. Makes for some interesting reading. I have no idea why the website magically subbed "Historic Bridges of Iowa" for the title when I posted it. One of those mysteries of the electronic age we will never understand...
The Beaver Creek bridge is on pages 64-65 if anyone is interested.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/black-hawk/beaver-creek-rr/
Yeah, but what is really funny is I deleted the auto-fill and re-labeled it, yet it still popped in its own heading.