Murray Baker Bridge
Photos
View from a distance
This photo was taken by Jay Babin from behind the Wal-Mart
BH Photo #102456
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered through truss bridge over Illinois River on I-74 in Peoria
- Location
- Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, and Tazewell County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1958; rehabilitated 1984 and 2005
- Design
- Cantilevered Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 600.0 ft.
Total length: 3,216.0 ft. (0.6 mi.)
Deck width: 55.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.68889, -89.58367 (decimal degrees)
40°41'20" N, 89°35'01" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/281680/4507432 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Peoria East
- Inventory numbers
- IL 090-0001 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15585 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2012)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 35.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 60,000
Update Log
- October 12, 2016: New photo from GS
- October 1, 2015: New photo from Roger Deschner
- May 30, 2013: New photo from M. D. Caillet
- December 11, 2010: New photos from Kim Harvey
- December 6, 2010: New Street View added by Jacob P. Bernard
- December 1, 2010: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
- November 30, 2010: New Street View added by Jacob P. Bernard
- April 12, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- March 13, 2006: Posted photo of the truss "amputation" from Nick Volk
Sources
- Jay Babin - jabab [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Brent Freesmeyer - bcfreesmeyer [at] msn [dot] com
- Nick Volk
- Wikipedia
- Nathan Holth
- Jacob P. Bernard
- Kim Harvey
- Roger Deschner - rogerdeschner [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
We all know in PA this bridge would have been blown to pieces, then halfway through the construction of the new UCEB PennDOT would have run out of money or some other problem would have arose.
What was done here, literally chopping off a portion of the truss to accommodate a new interchange, has to be one of the most creative fixes ever, not to mention a good use of available money.
Murray Baker was one of the founders of Caterpillar, the farm equipment company.
Can someone tell me who Murray Baker was and why he has a bridge named after him???
Hello,
I am trying to locate a nice picture of the Murray Baker Bridge. Do you have one in your archives? I would especially like one of the new rennovated bridge.
Thanks,
Dale
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/il/peoria/illinois-74/
Getting out the dynamite solves nothing unless the bridge is unsavable. Pennsylvania, and in some cases Missouri, rabid UCEB roll really stinks. Reconfiguring a truss such as in the case with this bridge, I strongly agree, is the feasable thing to do. This truss is a very handsome bridge indeed.