New Kate Shelley High Bridge
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
- Railroad
- - Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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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)
- Quadrangle map:
- Boone West
- Inventory number
- BH 43266 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 31, 2018: New photos from Daniel Barnes
- March 16, 2018: New photos from Daniel Barnes
- February 25, 2017: New photos from Daniel Barnes
- July 28, 2015: New photo from Chris Meiners
- June 2, 2015: New photo from Kevin Skow
- June 8, 2013: Updated by John Marvig: Added category "Ballasted Deck"
- 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
Related Bridges
- UP - Madrid High Bridge (Parts reused from)
- Kate Shelley High Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- Jacob P. Bernard
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Kevin Skow - weatherbum [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Daniel Barnes
Comments
American Bridge did a rather extensive rehab job on the old Kate back in 2000-2001, including flame shortening of various stretched chords and repair of damaged piers due to containers blown off of COFC cars account of high winds. After the rehab, it was obvious that old Kate would need even more work to fulfill UP's specs of having two loaded coal trains pass each other at track speed in mid span, something that old Kate hadn't been able to do for decades. So, UP opted for the concrete replacement. UP still owns Old Kate, and it was said that they were considering using it as an MOW road bridge.
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.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/boone/new-kate-shelly/
Wondering if this bridge was built with pre-cast pieces or was it cast in place? Also if it was pre-cast, can sections be replaced if the concrete begins to degrade prematurely?