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KJRY - Copperas Creek Bridge
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KJRY Copperas Creek Bridge
Missing Plate
Photo taken by John Marvig in June 2015
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BH Photo #332799
Description
Bridge matches the design in the Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer, Volume 28 (1893), and shows the portal and sway bracing have seen significant altercations in past years.
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Copperas Creek on Toledo Peoria and Western Railway
- Location
- Fulton County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1892
- Builder
- - Detroit Bridge & Iron Works of Detroit, Michigan
- Railroad
- - Toledo, Peoria, & Western Railroad (TPW)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 190.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.55701, -89.91146 (decimal degrees)
40°33'25" N, 89°54'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/253492/4493657 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Banner
- Inventory number
- BH 67962 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 19, 2015: New photos from John Marvig
- July 8, 2015: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- June 21, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added builder via John
- June 8, 2015: Added by John Marvig