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Wabash Railroad Bridge #277

Scott County, Illinois

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Wabash Railroad Bridge #277

View looking NE

Photo taken by James Holzmeier in December 2014

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

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BH Photo #344801

Map 

Facts 

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)

Categories 

Beam (15,810)
Built 1934 (795)
Built during 1930s (11,773)
Continuous (2,503)
Illinois (4,687)
Norfolk Southern Railway (1,949)
Open (39,986)
 Owned by railroad (12,504)
Scott County, Illinois (31)
Span length under 25 feet (6,910)
Steel stringer (6,286)
Total length under 25 feet (2,506)
Wabash Railroad (575)

Update Log 

  • December 31, 2015: New photo from James Holzmeier

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