Wallrich Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost bowstring through truss bridge over North Fork Vermilion River on TR 276B
- Location
- Livingston County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1905; rehabilitated 1976; replaced 1979
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 123.0 ft.
Total length: 172.0 ft.
Deck width: 15.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 11.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.83779, -88.28007 (decimal degrees)
40°50'16" N, 88°16'48" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/392079/4521539 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Chatsworth North
- Inventory number
- BH 36836 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 27, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Year built and Builder
- December 6, 2008: New photos from James Baughn
- July 8, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- HAER IL-132 - Wallrich Bridge, Spanning North Fork of Vermilion River at Township, Cullom vicinity, Livingston County, IL
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
I LOVE (all sarcasm intended) how the county engineer referred to the replacement of an historic bridge with a concrete and steel eyesore as a "rehab project".
I just read the attached newspaper article - this was a very good read. It really illustrates what a bridge can mean to a community.
State structure number was 053-3404. It was located northeast of Charlotte or 2.7 miles southwest of Cullom-the loction on the map has it southeast of Charlotte. It was a Phoenix Truss, built by the Phoenix Iron Co. of Philadelphia, PA. It was torn down in June, 1997. According to the news article it had originally been built someplace else, removed from there, and rebuilt in this location where it stood for 100 years. Sorry for the poor quality of the articles.
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