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NS - I-55 Overpass
Photo
Wabash Railroad Bridge #176.??
View looking south from I-55
Photo taken by James Holzmeier in November 2014
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
BH Photo #308981
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through girder bridge over I-55 on Wabash, later N&W, now NS Railway
- Location
- Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to rail traffic
- History
- Built 1962
- Railroads
- - Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Pony/through girder
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 81.0 ft.
Total length: 414.5 ft.
- Also called
- Wabash - I-55 Overpass
Wabash Railroad Bridge #176.?? - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.82757, -89.59283 (decimal degrees)
39°49'39" N, 89°35'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/278107/4411836 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Springfield East
- Inventory numbers
- IL 084-0013 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 64258 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 1, 2015: Updated by John Marvig: edited name to most common, added unknown Wabash bridge number to alternate names box
- December 13, 2014: Updated by James Holzmeier: Changed bridge build year, as well as changing bridge name to reflect an unknown Wabash bridge number
- November 25, 2014: Added by James Holzmeier
Sources
- James Holzmeier - wabashry [at] gmail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Wabash Railroad Bridge #177.5
This entry was completed with a different document than what I have in my possession now. Will check the new documentation to see if new information is provided.
Wabash Railroad Bridge #177.5
NBI says 1962
Wabash Railroad Bridge #177.5
Not sure how the date is 1939 as this is over I-55 which wasn't built until the early 1960's. The line was paralleled by the Illinois Terminal as it left Springfield/Starnes Station which some remnants exist and the IT portion was abandoned after 1956. There was no bridge for the IT built? I think the date is wrong unless it was moved here from somewhere else.
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OK, here goes. The Wabash RR Bridge Book I now have lists Bridge 177.5 as being (by my calculations) 3.54 miles west of Bridge #173 over the Sangamon River, in Riverton. Using Google Earth I calculated that the Bridge #177.5 reflected in the Bridge Book should actually be an overhead-grade bridge carrying US Rt. 66 over 3 railroads (Illinois Terminal, Wabash and Illinois Central) at Starne, Illinois. So...Bridge #177.5 is now IL Rt. 29, or Dirksen Hwy, which is Old Rt. 66.
Therefore, I am changing this particular bridge to reflect an unknown Wabash bridge number. It should be Bridge #176.__. Since, as reflected by an earlier commenter, it was erected in 1962, it would still have been a Wabash RR bridge and as such would have been assigned a Wabash bridge number.
More to follow. When I can find out the official bridge number, I'll update the entry.
Thank you for your input!!
James Holzmeier
Wabash Railroad Historical Society