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New Kate Shelley High Bridge

Boone County, Iowa
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From west approach

Photo taken by Nathan Morton in August 2009

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Facts 

Overview
Concrete Beam and Deck Plate Girder over Des Moines River on Union Pacific Railroad west of Boone
Location
Boone County, Iowa
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 2007-09 to replace parallel deck truss bridge
Design
Deck plate girder
Dimensions
Total length: 2,813.0 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.05962, -93.97064   (decimal degrees)
42°03'35" N, 93°58'14" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/419688/4656851 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Boone West
Inventory number
BH 43266 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (6,048)
Boone County, Iowa (56)
Built 2009 (16)
Built during 2000s (324)
Concrete girder (520)
Concrete stringer (271)
Deck girder (1,801)
Des Moines River (159)
Girder (3,238)
 Iowa (3,506)
Modern (605)
Open (28,313)
Owned by railroad (4,046)
Plate girder (2,251)
Railroad (4,075)
Tall Bridges (71)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)
Union Pacific Railroad (793)

Update Log 

  • March 28, 2013: New photos from John Marvig
  • August 3, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Tall Bridges"
  • July 26, 2012: New photos from John Marvig
  • November 18, 2010: New photos from Jason Smith
  • February 17, 2010: Updated by J.R. Manning: Added GPS Coordinates per To-Do List
  • August 23, 2009: Added by Nathan Morton

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Sources 

  • Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
  • Jacob P. Bernard - jacob_bernard [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Jason Smith - JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net
  • John Marvig - johnmarvig [at] chaska [dot] net
  • Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
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New Kate Shelley High Bridge
Posted June 26, 2012, by Luke Harden (lmharden [at] iastate [dot] edu)

This bridge reused the DPG spans from the old High Bridge at Madrid, which is now the High Trestle Trail Bridge.

New Kate Shelly High Bridge
Posted August 23, 2009, by J.R. Manning (thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

I would be willing to bet that no one is happier to have this bridge open than the UPRR engineers, who will no longer have to reduce speed to a crawl in order to cross the old Kate Shelly High Bridge.