Photos
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Distant View Of Bridge; To Left Is Nabisco Factory; Looking West. Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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View Of Bridge From South Side Of Power Canal, Looking Northwest. Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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West Side Of Bridge As Seen From Its North End. Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Of The Builder's Plate: '1888, M. Lassig, Builder, Chicago Ill. Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Of Diagonal Truss Members On West Side Of Bridge, Looking Southwest. Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Detail Of Track Switch On Bridge. Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record |
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Facts
- Overview
- Howe pony truss bridge over Marseilles Power Canal on spur of Rock Island Railroad in Marseilles
- Location
- Marseilles, La Salle County, Illinois
- Builder
- - Lassig Bridge Co.
- Design
- Howe pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.32697, -88.71148 (decimal degrees)
41°19'37" N, 88°42'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/356772/4576467 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 36837 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 2, 2010: Updated by James Baughn: Fixed spelling of name
- July 23, 2008: New photos from Kim Harvey
- July 8, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- HAER IL-97 - Marseille Nabisco Bridge, Spanning power canals at Nabisco Paper Mill, Marseilles, La Salle County, IL
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
Comments
I've never seen a car cross this bridge. It was for the railroad spur that went into Nabisco that was torn up in the late 80s. I go past it every day and it has a fence across it at the north end with a garbage dumpster in front of it.
The bridge is in Marseilles, IL not Marseille and it actually looks the same and I believe cars still cross it on occasion.
The town is spelled Marseilles with an S on the end, not "Marseille". Pronounced "Mar-sales". There is a small, single span manually powered swing bridge over the I&M canal 50 yards north of this bridge that served the same RR spur.