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Shippingsport Bridge

LaSalle County, Illinois

Photos 

General View Of The Bridge Looking East.

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

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BH Photo #117953

Map 

Street View 

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
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)

Categories 

Built 1929 (912)
Built during 1920s (9,018)
HAER documented (1,100)
Have street view (23,402)
Illinois (3,922)
Illinois River (57)
Illinois Steel Bridge Co. (71)
LaSalle County, Illinois (85)
Lost (19,543)
Lost 2001 (427)
Lost during 2000s (3,785)
Movable (2,765)
 Owned by state (14,200)
Parker through truss (1,189)
Parker truss (1,549)
Replaced by new bridge (12,901)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,859)
Stresenreueter Brothers Co. (1)
Through truss (13,167)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,781)
Truss (29,916)
US 51 (42)
Vertical lift (415)

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

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Shippingsport Bridge
Posted August 3, 2013, by Rick P

old shippingsport lift bridge and older one that it replaced from 1872

Shippingsport Bridge
Posted March 23, 2011, by Gene Smania

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.

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Shippingsport Bridge
Posted March 10, 2011, by Gene Smania

Photo taken ca. 2000 by consultant.