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RI - Soap Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Subdivided warren through truss bridge over Soap Creek on former Rock Island Railroad
- Location
- Davis County, Iowa
- Status
- Piers and abutments remaining
- History
- Abandoned and removed 1983
- Railroad
- - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRIP (1866-1920); RI (1920-1975) ROCK (1975-1980))
- Design
- 1 - 127' Subdivided Warren through truss
6 - 40' DPG - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 127.0 ft.
Total length: 367.0 ft.
- Also called
- RI Bridge #3001
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.88821, -92.29374 (decimal degrees)
40°53'18" N, 92°17'37" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/559498/4526587 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Agency
- Inventory number
- BH 55520 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 30, 2014: New photo from Luke Harden
- September 14, 2013: New photo from Dylan VanAntwerp
- September 13, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added truss type (Guess)
- September 13, 2013: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: edited
- March 14, 2013: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Edited photo order and captions.
- February 11, 2013: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Added category "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad"
Related Bridges
- ISRY - Chariton River Bridge (Same design)
- IANR - Shell Rock River Bridge (Clarksville) (Same design)
- UP - Des Moines River Bridge (Hartford Avenue) (Same design)
- IANR - Beaver Creek Bridge (Same design)
Sources
- Dylan VanAntwerp - dylan_vanantwerp [at] live [dot] com
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1960s Aerial Imagery
- Luke
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I found it on here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fansoftherockislandrr/ and remembered that you had uploaded other pics that the same photographer had taken.