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UP - Kickapoo Creek Viaduct
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Kickapoo Creek/ Kickapoo Creek Road/Railroad on Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Bartonville, Peoria County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1912
- Builder
- - Cleary-White Construction Co. of Chicago, Illinois (Substructure)
- Railroads
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- 2 Skewed TPGs
2 skewed Pratt through trusses
7 DPGs
1 TPG - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 140.0 ft.
Total length: 1,075.0 ft.
- Also called
- UP - Kickapoo Creek Bridge #1
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.66515, -89.65208 (decimal degrees)
40°39'55" N, 89°39'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/275818/4504968 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Peoria West
- Inventory numbers
- IL 072-9908 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 51374 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 20, 2016: New photos from Steve Conro
- July 19, 2015: New photos from John Marvig
- July 8, 2015: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- April 11, 2015: Updated by Luke: Addedimagery posted by Howard Keil
- October 19, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Merged NBI data
- February 21, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Union Pacific Railroad", "Chicago & North Western Railway"
Sources
- Luke
- RailPictures.net
- RailPictures.net
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
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My Father grew up near this bridge, (well Starr and Folkers) and they used to get on top and see if the steam locomotives could blow them off. If the engineers would see them, they'd stop most of the steam going out the stack, and the cops would come and chase them away. Kickapoo Creek was deep enough that they'd dive off the bridge into the water. So damm dangerous! The last time I checked the creek was about 8 inches deep under the "temporary" bridge they put up for construction purposes under the RR bridge.