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DME - Turkey River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over Turkey River on Railroad
- Location
- Clayton County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Two spans washed out 2008
- Builder
- - Benesch of Chicago, Illinois (2008 Replacement Spans Engineer)
- Railroads
- - Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad (DME)
- I&M Rail Link (IMRL)
- Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad (ICE)
- Soo Line Railroad (SOO)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.70839, -91.02957 (decimal degrees)
42°42'30" N, 91°01'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/661366/4730315 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Turkey River
- Inventory number
- BH 54098 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 18, 2014: Updated by Luke: Added replacement span engineer
- December 17, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- October 22, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- MILW - Turkey River Bridge (Predecessor)
Comments
DM&E - Turkey River Bridge
Heard from railroad sources on Facebook groups that this bridge will be replaced with 7 secondhand spans from various unused double track mainlines. Four are supposedly coming from east of Savannah IL.
DM&E - Turkey River Bridge
Reportedly collapsed approximately 3:00 AM today (3/15/19)
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Brief article with photo of collapse in progress. https://kwwl.com/news/top-stories/2019/03/15/part-of-railroa...