Wabash Railroad Bridge #277

Photo

View looking NE

Photo taken by James Holzmeier in December 2014

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

BH Photo #344801

Overview: Steel stringer bridge over Unknown tributary to Wolf Run on Wabash, later N&W, now NS Railway
Location: Scott County, Illinois
Status: Open to rail traffic
History: Original stone box culvert built 1876; replaced 1934 with this bridge
Railroads: - Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
Design: I-beam stringer
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 22.7 ft.
Total length: 22.9 ft.
Deck width: 28.0 ft.
Also called: Wabash Railroad Bridge #277
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.74831, -90.53079 (decimal degrees)
39°44'54" N, 90°31'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/711554/4402738 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Florence
Inventory number: BH 66102 (Bridgehunter.com ID)