STR - US51 Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Girder bridge over US 51 on Penn Central Railroad in Cairo
- Location
- Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1917
- Builder
- - King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
- Railroads
- - Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Shawnee Terminal Railway (STR)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 43.0 ft.
Total length: 66.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.01917, -89.18472 (decimal degrees)
37°01'09" N, 89°11'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/305647/4099230 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cairo
- Inventory numbers
- IL 002-9906 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 49778 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 1, 2014: New photos from Nathan Holth
- September 19, 2012: New photos from J.P.
- October 8, 2011: Added by Ben Tate
Sources
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
Comments
Like these old King Girders. Heck I enjoy culverts, to each there own. If you post TOO many UCEBs the group WILL let you know. I have many shots of bridges I don't post. I take because I'm there and probably no one else will bother. Not for my edification just for future history. Put up a tiny 1920's culvert the other day. Really nothing special, however I was deep in Pennsyltucky , and it was marked to be replaced probably soon as bridge up road was being so at that time.
Saw this bridge yesterday. Took photos. Noticed that this bridge was listed without a known builder. When looking at the bridge yesterday J.P. and I found the bridge plaques, lo and behold, the bridge plaques revealed that this bridge is a product of the King Iron Bridge Company!
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/il/alexander/penn-central/
Sometimes people will complain about the older concrete bridges too:
https://bridgehunter.com/ia/johnson/bh67409/