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UP - I-80 Overpass

Cook County, Illinois

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Street View 

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Overview
Steel stringer bridge over Interstates 294 & 80 on Union Pacific Railroad
Location
Thornton, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1958
Builder
- McClintic-Marshall Co. of Chicago, Illinois & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Railroads
- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (CEI)
- Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design
Steel stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 65.9 ft.
Total length: 191.0 ft.
Also called
MoPac - I-80 Overpass
CEI - I-80 Overpass
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.57949, -87.61205   (decimal degrees)
41°34'46" N, 87°36'43" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/448979/4603270 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Calumet City
Inventory numbers
IL 016-9723 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 62293 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (15,816)
Built 1958 (353)
Built during 1950s (3,860)
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (46)
Cook County, Illinois (462)
Have street view (27,081)
Illinois (4,689)
Interstate 294 (2)
Interstate 80 (19)
McClintic-Marshall Co. (77)
 Missouri Pacific Railroad (382)
Open (39,994)
Railroad (15,613)
South Holland, Illinois (2)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,107)
Steel stringer (6,289)
Thornton, Illinois (1)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,287)
Union Pacific Railroad (2,375)

Update Log 

  • August 4, 2014: New Street View added by Luke

Sources 

  • Luke

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