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IR - Fox River Bridge
Description
Bridge once had two truss spans. A Whipple Deck Truss and a Pratt Deck Truss. The whipple was replaced with I-Beam SpansFacts
- Overview
- Pratt deck truss bridge over Fox River on Illinois Railway West of Sheridan
- Location
- Sheridan, LaSalle County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Railroads
- - BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
- Illinois Railway (IR)
- Design
- Combination Pratt Deck Truss & Steel Stringer with Timber Stringer approach. Length was approximated.
Originally featured a Whipple deck truss. - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 155.0 ft.
Total length: 448.0 ft.
- Also called
- Sheridan Railroad Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.52913, -88.69538 (decimal degrees)
41°31'45" N, 88°41'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/358560/4598885 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sheridan
- Inventory number
- BH 49883 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 10, 2017: New photo from Luke
- August 16, 2015: New photos from John Marvig
- June 29, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Illinois Railway"
- October 26, 2011: Updated by Steve Conro: Name corrected per David Eikes
- October 25, 2011: New Street View added by Cliff Darby
- October 24, 2011: New photos from Steve Conro
- October 23, 2011: Added by Steve Conro
Sources
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Cliff Darby - clif30 [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Luke
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Rock Island Fox River Bridge
Some clarification on this bridge, which may warrant a renaming: It was built as part of the old Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy, a branch line that ran from Aurora to Streator. It was never part of the Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific. It was part of the Burlington Northern (successor of the CB&Q) until it was sold off to the shortline Illinois Railnet (now the Illinois Railway, part of OmniTRAX).
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Here is a shot of the IR Fox River Bridge taken on November 30, 2017, with the Norfolk Southern 8114, the "Original Norfolk Southern" heritage unit, bringing up the markers on a loaded eastbound sand train.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/66708125@N03/38229681544/in/da...