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GM&O - Kaskaskia River Bridge
Description
Piers and one abutment visible on Google aerial imagery. Center pier is round suggesting it served as the pivot for a swing bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost bridge over Kaskaskia River (former channel) on Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railway west of Baldwin
- Location
- Randolph County, Illinois
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built ca. 1906; Removed in the 1970s after the river was rechanneled
- Railroad
- - Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railway (GMO)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.18882, -89.88207 (decimal degrees)
38°11'20" N, 89°52'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/247586/4230692 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Red Bud
- Inventory number
- BH 75191 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 18, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 17, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 14, 2017: Updated by Luke: Added info
- January 14, 2017: Added by James Baughn
Related Bridges
- CN - Kaskaskia River Bridge (Baldwin) (Successor)
Sources
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Luke
- Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year Ended June 30, 1906 - Book
© Copyright 2002-18, James Baughn and contributors.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/il/randolph/kaskaskia-river/
Unless it's changed since I was last there.....you could still see a few of the bridge piers in the water that we're not removed back in the day