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GM&O - Salt Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Salt creek on former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad line
- Location
- Logan County, Illinois
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Built 1900
- Railroad
- - Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (GMO)
- Design
- Through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.12316, -89.58891 (decimal degrees)
40°07'23" N, 89°35'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/279396/4444640 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Middletown
- Elevation
- 527 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 42869 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 24, 2012: Updated by Steve Conro: Added category "Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railway"
- November 26, 2011: Updated by Clark Vance: Provided likely location
- May 9, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Added creek
- June 24, 2009: Added by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- IL Property Information
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
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Looking at the GM&O map from 1948 there are two places in this county where it crosses Salt Creek, just south of Lincoln parallel to old US 66, (street view shows a plate girder) and on an abandoned line running from San Jose south through New Holland. This line is shown as abandoned on the Delavan South, New Holland, and Middletown, IL topo maps (all 1980). A little over 1.5 miles north of Middletown the line crosses Salt Creek. A close look at the satellite image shows a likely pier at the crossing.