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CN - Kaskaskia River Bridge (Baldwin)
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss railroad bridge over the Kaskaskia River on the CNRR west of Baldwin next to IL 154
- Location
- Randolph County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Railroads
- - Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (GMO)
- Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- Design
- Riveted, 8-panel Warren through truss
- Also called
- CN - Baldwin Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.19058, -89.88862 (decimal degrees)
38°11'26" N, 89°53'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/247019/4230905 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Red Bud
- Inventory number
- BH 15625 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 27, 2014: New photo from Jack Schmidt
- March 10, 2010: Updated by Kim Harvey: minor change in GPS
- July 13, 2005: Posted photo from Brian Frierdich
Related Bridges
- GM&O - Kaskaskia River Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
Comments
CN - Kaskaskia River Bridge (Baldwin)
This bridge is part of the old Waterloo route....while the railroad ends just past the bridge, now used only for the plant on the other side, it use to continue on into Waterloo and STL.
CN - Kaskaskia River Bridge (Baldwin)
As of April 2013, this railroad bridge is not out of service. The bridge is used by CN in order to get to the KRPD #2 loading facility and The Material Works. They usually offload coiled steel and there is an industrial engine at the facility.
Baldwin Railroad Bridge
bridge has been out of use 2 years
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This bridge was completed in 1972.
A River Corps of Engineers project that began in 1967 to straighten the Kaskaskia River thru here required a new bridge for the GM&O. This new bridge replaced a wooden trestle.