Iowa Central - Mississippi River Bridge

Photos 

Taken around 1900

Source: Wikipedia

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BH Photo #127400

Map 

Facts 

Overview

Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Mississippi River on Iowa Central Railroad in Keithsburg

Location

Keithsburg, Mercer County, Illinois, and Louisa County, Iowa

Status

Replaced by new bridge

History

Built 1886, demolished 1910

Builders

- Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (Superstructure)
- Sooysmith & Co. of New York (Substructure)

Railroad

- Iowa Central Railway (IAC)

Design

Whipple through truss

Also called

First Keithsburg Rail Bridge

Approximate latitude, longitude

+41.10475, -90.95272   (decimal degrees)
41°06'17" N, 90°57'10" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

15/671911/4552404 (zone/easting/northing)

Quadrangle map:

Keithsburg

Inventory number

BH 38052 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• December 1, 2018: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
• August 12, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Railroad"
• July 27, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added build date
• June 18, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added builder
• March 23, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Navigable waterway", "Iowa Central Railway"
• March 1, 2010: Updated by Robert Stephenson: Added GPS coordinates
• November 10, 2008: Added by Nathan Morton

Related Bridges 

• M&StL - Keithsburg Lift Bridge (Successor)

Sources 

• Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
• Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
• Luke
• Journal of the Western Society of Engineers, Volume 8 - Info
• Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com

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