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IC - West Frankfort Overpass
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IC - West Frankfort
Southern Illinoisan, December 28 1955
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BH Photo #440421
Description
Since this isn't really north of town it's just a start. The IC line was not here for very long. A couple of maps from 1941 and 1963 show ending here and going east. One 1963 map shows it running to the west from here. But this looks like the only place where there is a non-grade crossing of the C&EI track by anything belonging to IC near West Frankfort.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Girder bridge
- Location
- West Frankfort, Franklin County, Illinois
- Status
- Destroyed by fire
- Railroad
- - Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- Design
- Girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.89446, -88.92822 (decimal degrees)
37°53'40" N, 88°55'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/330457/4195858 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 7 S., R. 3 E., Sec. 19
- Elevation
- 410 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 83952 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 1, 2019: Updated by Clark Vance: Probable location
- December 31, 2018: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
Sources
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
Thank you Clark !