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NS - West Marion Street Overpass
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View looking west
Photo taken by James Holzmeier in October 2014
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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BH Photo #307518
Description
2 adjacent pony plate girder bridges, with only one span still in-use. The railroad through town used to be double-track until the second main was pulled up in the late 1980's. Builder unknown; there are no visible builder's plates attached to either bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over W. Marion St. on Wabash, later N&W, later NS Railroad
- Location
- Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Railroads
- - Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Also called
- N&W - West Marion Street Overpass
Wabash - West Marion Street Overpass
Norfolk Southern Bridge #1403
Wabash Railroad Bridge #1403
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.02371, -88.57646 (decimal degrees)
40°01'25" N, 88°34'35" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/365477/4431579 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Monticello
- Inventory number
- BH 63888 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 5, 2014: New photos from James Holzmeier
- October 29, 2014: New Street View added by James Holzmeier