Rating:
1 vote
Main Street Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Timber stringer bridge over Railroad (UP) on Main Street
- Location
- Melcher-Dallas, Marion County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1940
- Builder
- - Iowa State Highway Commission of Ames, Iowa
- Design
- Timber stringer
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 19.0 ft.
Total length: 106.0 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.23306, -93.24333 (decimal degrees)
41°13'59" N, 93°14'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/479607/4564657 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Melcher-Dallas
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 1,000
- Inventory numbers
- IA 2855 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 56108 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of December 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
© Copyright 2021, Historic Bridge Foundation and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/marion/bh56108/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/marion/bh56108/
My father was born in Melcher and I am sure this bridge was there before 1940. Re built in 1940 perhaps? It was there before 1940 as he and other boys walked the top of it as youngsters-he was born in 1922.