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Abandoned MoPac - Cache Channel Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony plate-girder bridge over the Cache River Diversion Channel next to IL 3 on Abandoned Missouri Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Alexander County, Illinois
- Status
- Still standing, but rails removed
- History
- Built ca. 1950 to span the newly created Cache River Diversion Channel
- Railroad
- - Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP; MoPac)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.09293, -89.25667 (decimal degrees)
37°05'35" N, 89°15'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/299441/4107563 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cache
- Inventory number
- BH 15003 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 10, 2017: New photos from James Baughn
- August 9, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
Comments
Cache Channel Illinois Central Bridge
The bridge was used by the GM&O. It was built during the Cache River diversion project.
The GM&O never crossed the Cache before this project. May have been a ICG bridge after the merger in the 1970's. The other Cache river IC bridge is at another location.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/il/alexander/channel-ic/
Just want to clarify things based on the previous comment. This is a GM&O era bridge across the Cache Channel. I have a photo dated May 21, 1965, taken by the GM&O, of this bridge.