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Government Bridge
Description
This bridge was destroyed by a icy flood storm after testing of the completion of this double decker.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Mississippi River on Railroad and Road
- Location
- Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, and Rock Island County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge because of an icy flood storm
- History
- Built 1872, Replaced 1895
- Builders
- - Baltimore Bridge Co. of Baltimore, Maryland
- Charles Shaler Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Chief Engineer)
- Ralph Modjeski of Bochnia, Poland
- Railroad
- - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRIP (1866-1920); RI (1920-1975) ROCK (1975-1980))
- Design
- Pratt through truss swing
- Dimensions
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Total length: 1,950.5 ft.
- Also called
- Third Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.51841, -90.56640 (decimal degrees)
41°31'06" N, 90°33'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/703065/4599167 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Davenport East
- Inventory number
- BH 55673 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 17, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 23, 2017: New photo from Dave King
- March 1, 2013: Added by Luke Harden