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CN - State Street Bridge
Description
This bridge is in very poor condition, and even the recent shoring with wooden blocks has begun to fail. It is the stone abutments that are the worst failing component, though there are other deteriorated elements.Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over State Street on Canadian National Railway
- Location
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1899; Replaced 2020-2021
- Builder
- - Detroit Bridge & Iron Works of Detroit, Michigan
- Railroads
- - Amtrak (AMTK)
- Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad (CWI)
- Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- St. Charles Air Line Railroad
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 65.0 ft.
Total length: 106.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.86069, -87.62724 (decimal degrees)
41°51'38" N, 87°37'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/447939/4634498 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 83940 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 2, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added builder
- June 6, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: Replacement complete
- April 14, 2019: Updated by Roger Deschner: Added photos, categories, description
- January 6, 2019: New photos from John Marvig
- December 31, 2018: Added by John Marvig
Related Bridges
- CN - State Street bridge (2021) (Successor)
Sources
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
- Engineering News-Record and American Railway Journal 1900-02-22: Vol 43 Iss 8
Comments
CN - State Street Bridge
Demolition of this bridge is underway now. I'm glad I was able to photograph it back in April.
State Street underneath it is closed to traffic until October 5, 2019. I have not heard how rail traffic is affected.
CN - State Street Bridge
Not hard to see why these five bridges (Clark, Dearborn, State, Wabash, Michigan) will be replaced this year. The State Street bridge is probably in the worst immediately visible condition, with a massive sag in the west abutment. To counter this, temporary timber cribbing has been added under the girders, but is beginning to fail. All five bridges have advanced pier and deck deterioration, and most have had additional cribbing and bracing added.
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Roger,
While not nearly as important today, when the St. Charles airline was built, it was a very important rail connection in Chicago. While these bridges are not overly significant on any scale, I’m glad we were able to document them for future generations, especially considering their significance to Chicago 100 years ago.