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Cache Channel Missouri Pacific Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost pony plate-girder bridge over the Cache River Diversion Channel on the Missouri Pacific Thebes-Cairo railroad line
- Location
- Alexander County, Illinois
- Status
- Several concrete piers remain
- History
- Built ca. 1950 to span the newly created Cache River Diversion Channel
- Railroad
- - Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.09182, -89.25783 (decimal degrees)
37°05'31" N, 89°15'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/299334/4107443 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cache
- Inventory number
- BH 15004 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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This bridge used to carry a MP branch line from Thebes, IL to Cairo.