Rating:
3 votes
DM&E - Red Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Catfish Creek on Railroad
- Location
- Dubuque County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a TPG in 2012
- History
- Built 1896 Lost 2012
- Builder
- - Charles Frederick Loweth of Cleveland, Ohio (Chief Engineer)
- Railroads
- - Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad (DME)
- Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad (ICE)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 175.0 ft.
Total length: 175.0 ft.
- Also called
- Milwaukee Road Bridge K-96
Catfish Creek Railroad Bridge
CM&StP&P Bridge K-96
Bridge K-96
MILW - Red Bridge
K-96
Red Bridge
MILW Catfish Creek Bridge
DM&E Catfish Creek Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.46817, -90.64469 (decimal degrees)
42°28'05" N, 90°38'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/693629/4704446 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dubuque South
- Inventory numbers
- Iowa SHPO 33-06088
CM&StP&P RR K-96
Iowa HADB 31-104
BH 52565 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 11, 2019: New photo from David Shedlock
- February 23, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added chief engineer
- October 18, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- September 5, 2012: New photos from Luke Harden
- September 4, 2012: New photos from Luke Harden
- September 3, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Updated status to lost. Bridge was replaced with a DPG last week.
- August 26, 2012: New photo from Luke Harden
- May 27, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Bridge is doomed
Comments
Red Bridge
Yeah, quite sad. There are plenty of bridges that are collapsing on themselves from neglect - and here's one that is sound enough it's removed in one piece.
On a side note, any idea approximately how much a bridge like that might weigh?
Red Bridge
This is so stupid. They hauled the bridge away IN ONE PIECE! How hard would it be to simply set it down in a park somewhere? http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/Dubuque-Loses-Historic-Bridge...
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Wild guess, 200-300 tons.
It's a railroad bridge, and it's had 116 years of locomotives and freight cars crossing it. Freight cars are heavier and trains are faster than they were when it was built--there's a lot of railroad trusses that didn't last half that long, especially if it's a mainline bridge.