Rating:
49912
{77}%
3 votes
CP - Rock River Bridge (Byron)
Photos
Photo taken by Steve Conro in November 2011
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BH Photo #221206
Description
Originally part of the Chicago Great Western Railroad now left in place and used as a spur to supply Byron Nuclear Power Plant. Length approximate.
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Rock River on Canadian Pacific Railway (former CGW)
- Location
- Byron, Ogle County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Original Great Western Railroad bridge. Now Canadian Pacific Railway
- Builder
- - Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. of Des Moines, Iowa & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)
- Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW)
- Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad (DME)
- Design
- Deck Plate girder on concrete piers
- Dimensions
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Total length: 780.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.12382, -89.25068 (decimal degrees)
42°07'26" N, 89°15'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/313961/4665975 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Oregon
- Inventory number
- BH 49912 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 29, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added builder.
- November 30, 2011: New photos from Steve Conro
- October 25, 2011: Added by Steve Conro