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CN - Big Muddy River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Three-span concrete arch bridge over Big Muddy River on Canadian National Railway
- Location
- Jackson County, Illinois
- Status
- Still in use
- History
- Built 1902
- Builders
- - G. H. Scribner Jr. of Chicago, Illinois (Contractor)
- German-American Portland Cement Co. of Hamburg, Germany & LaSalle, Illinois. (Concrete Mix)
- Henry Williams Parkhurst of Chicago, Illinois (IC Bridge Designer)
- Railroads
- - Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- Design
- Open-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 140.0 ft.
Total length: 420.0 ft.
- Also called
- IC - Big Muddy River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.78597, -89.22372 (decimal degrees)
37°47'09" N, 89°13'25" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/304184/4184396 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- De Soto
- Land survey
- T. 8 S., R. 1 W., Sec. 33 (Desoto Twp.)
- Inventory number
- BH 15341 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 7, 2020: New photos from Steve Conro
- September 18, 2019: Updated by John Marvig: Added information from IC Track Profile
- December 1, 2018: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- July 23, 2017: New photo from Luke
- December 15, 2016: New photo from Dave King
- December 13, 2016: Updated by Luke: Added builders
- December 13, 2016: New photos from Dave King
- April 18, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- April 17, 2010: New photos from Robert Stephenson
- March 10, 2010: Updated by Kim Harvey: minor change in GPS
- June 25, 2009: New photos from John Christeson
- September 19, 2008: New photos from Kim Harvey
- September 6, 2006: Posted photos from David Birckhead
Related Bridges
- IC - Big Muddy River Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- David Birckhead
- Kim Harvey
- John Christeson - john_christeson [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Luke
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Here is an old family photo of (what looks like) the Big Muddy River Bridge. My husband's great grandfather was Anson A Hinkley (1857-1920), who had an apple orchard north of Du Bois in Washington County. Anson's son George Meech Hinkley (1886-1975) farmed and had an orchard near Ashley, also in Washington County.