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Beardstown Railroad Bridge

Cass County, Illinois, and Schuyler County, Illinois
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Rail bridge from Beardstown Riverfront

Photo taken by Nathan Morton in August 2007

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Overview
Through truss vertical-lift bridge over Illinois River on BNSF Railway (formerly CB&Q, then BN) in Beardstown
Location
Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois, and Schuyler County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
Design
Vertical lift bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.02295, -90.43345   (decimal degrees)
40°01'23" N, 90°26'00" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/719019/4433459 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Beardstown
Inventory number
BH 38033 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beardstown, Illinois (2)
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (465)
Cass County, Illinois (3)
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (130)
Illinois (2,500)
Illinois River (46)
Movable (1,356)
Open (28,319)
 Owned by railroad (4,052)
Polygonal Warren through truss (300)
Polygonal Warren truss (738)
Pony truss (13,217)
Schuyler County, Illinois (11)
Truss (23,575)
Vertical lift (275)
Warren truss (3,961)

Update Log 

  • February 21, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Added GPS coordinates
  • November 7, 2008: Added by Nathan Morton

Sources 

  • Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Beardstown Railroad Bridge
Posted January 20, 2013, by Timothy Hickernell (tim [at] hickernell [dot] net)

I can remember living in Beardstown as a kid when the old swing bridge was still in place. It took large barges forever to anchor barges north and south of the bridge while they transported just a few at a time through the narrow channel. We used to always wave at the bridge tenders as we would pass under the bridge in our speed boat or fishing boat. Then when I was in the 3rd grade (1971-72), they replaced it with the current lift bridge, seen here. We thought the most impressive thing about the new bridge was that it was remote controlled from the yard about 1-2 miles south. The bridge tenders house was no more, which was sad.