Photos
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East portal Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in September 2007 |
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Photo taken by Robert Stephenson |
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Photo taken by Robert Stephenson |
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Photo taken by Robert Stephenson |
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Photo taken by Robert Stephenson |
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New Deck 2010 Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in March 2010 |
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New Deck 2010 Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in March 2010 |
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New Deck 2010 Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in March 2010 |
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New Deck 2010 Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in March 2010 |
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New Deck 2010 Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in March 2010 |
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New Deck 2010 Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in March 2010 |
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New Deck 2010 Photo taken by Robert Stephenson in March 2010 |
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1981 HAARGIS slide |
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1981 HAARGIS slide |
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1981 HAARGIS slide |
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2005 HAARGIS photo |
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2005 HAARGIS photo |
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2005 HAARGIS photo |
Map
- Google Maps
- Google Street View (if available)
- Yahoo! Maps
- Bing Maps
- MSR Maps
- OpenStreetMap
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Embarras River on TR 275, northeast of Charleston, 3 mi. northwest of Ashmore
- Location
- Coles County, Illinois
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- Future prospects
- Rehabilitation to begin Feb 2010
- History
- Built 1914 by the Decatur Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Decatur Bridge Co.
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 139.7 ft.
Total length: 189.5 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.2 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 1981
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.55504, -88.08948 (decimal degrees)
39°33'18" N, 88°05'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/406400/4378939 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Ashmore
- Inventory numbers
- IL 015-3165 (Illinois bridge number)
NRHP 81000211 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 15081 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 01/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
- 50
Update Log
- April 30, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Future Prospects
- April 17, 2010: New photos from Robert Stephenson
- March 13, 2010: New photos from Robert Stephenson
- February 9, 2009: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Status
- October 16, 2008: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Changed GPS coordinates
- June 22, 2008: Despite what Google shows, the actual name is Airtight Bridge
- June 20, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson: Corrected name from "Airtight" to "Airfight"
- June 20, 2008: New photo from Robert Stephenson
Sources
- Wikipedia
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
Glad to see the old girl getting some love. Hopefully a new paint job is in the works as well.
Airtight Bridge to go retro with wood deck
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=12E0B32DA10260E0&p_docnum=2
The Google map does have the road named wrong, also The Airtight bridge was added to the National Register of Historical places in 1981.
http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IL/Coles/state.html
From the Google map, looks like the name of the road is "Airfight", not Airtight. Just thought I'd mention it.