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NS - Mauvaise Terre Creek Bridge

Morgan County, Illinois

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Wabash Railroad Bridge #231

View looking north

Photo taken by James Holzmeier in January 2015

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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BH Photo #314908

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Facts 

Overview
Concrete deck girder bridge over Mauvaise Terre Creek on Wabash, later N&W, later NS Railway
Location
Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Original 90' iron deck truss bridge built 1871; replaced 1923 by this bridge
Railroads
- Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
Design
Concrete deck girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 30.0 ft.
Total length: 92.5 ft.
Deck width: 14.5 ft.
Also called
Wabash - Mauvaise Terre Creek
N&W - Mauvaise Terre Creek Bridge
Wabash Railroad Bridge #231
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.73462, -90.20479   (decimal degrees)
39°44'05" N, 90°12'17" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/739537/4402040 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Jacksonville
Inventory number
BH 64256 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1923 (620)
Built during 1920s (9,925)
Concrete girder (1,004)
Deck girder (5,750)
Girder (10,240)
Illinois (4,647)
Jacksonville, Illinois (16)
Morgan County, Illinois (44)
 Norfolk & Western Railway (556)
Norfolk Southern Railway (1,919)
Open (39,886)
Owned by railroad (12,424)
Railroad (15,426)
Span length 25-50 feet (15,669)
Total length 75-100 feet (6,584)
Wabash Railroad (572)

Update Log 

  • February 1, 2015: New photo from James Holzmeier
  • November 25, 2014: Added by James Holzmeier

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