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Shippingsport Bridge
Photos
General View Of The Bridge Looking East.
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #117953
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Illinois River on once carried US 51 and later IL 351
- Location
- LaSalle County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Lost 7 span through truss vertical lift bridge, replaced with a modern span.
- Builders
- - Illinois Steel Bridge Co. of Jacksonville, Illinois
- Stresenreueter Brothers Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Design
- 6 Parker Through truss spans, each 180' long
1 Waddell and Harrigton lift span, 200' long
Lift span was Strauss Vertical Lift - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.0 ft.
Total length: 1,679.0 ft.
- Also called
- LaSalle-Oglesby Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.31436, -89.09172 (decimal degrees)
41°18'52" N, 89°05'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/324916/4575765 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- La Salle
- Inventory number
- BH 36833 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 13, 2015: New photo from Gene Smania
- August 28, 2013: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 6, 2013: New photos from Gene Smania
- March 10, 2011: New Street View added by Jason Smith
- February 21, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Added GPS coordinates
- November 24, 2008: Updated by Kim Harvey: added category
- July 23, 2008: New photos from Kim Harvey
- July 12, 2008: Updated by Kim Harvey
- July 8, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- http://www.cmtengr.com/hb_3_shp.htm - info abou the replacement bridge
- Shippingsport History
- John Weeks
- Original Span - Bridgepix
- HAER IL-56 - Shippingsport Bridge, Spanning Illinois River at State Route 51, La Salle, La Salle County, IL
- Postcard
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
Comments
Shippingsport Bridge
This structure was a Strauss Vertical Lift bridge, opened to traffic in 1929. It replaced a swing span structure that was built in 1872 and had a swing span. The operator's house was approximately 48 feet above the normal water level, not 200 as specified in the newspaper article elsewhere in this file. Attached is some information on both the 1929 bridge and the bridge that replaced it.
Shippingsport Bridge
Photo taken ca. 2000 by consultant.
© Copyright 2002-18, James Baughn and contributors.
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old shippingsport lift bridge and older one that it replaced from 1872