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RI - Toulon Arch
Facts
- Overview
- Closed-spandrel arch bridge over IL91 on Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Toulon, Stark County, Illinois
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Abandoned 1973
- Railroads
- - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRIP (1866-1920); RI (1920-1975) ROCK (1975-1980))
- Peoria & Rock Island Railway (P&RI)
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.09551, -89.85933 (decimal degrees)
41°05'44" N, 89°51'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/259859/4553299 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 13 N., R. 6 E., Sec. 19
- Inventory number
- BH 83814 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 20, 2022: Updated by Luke: Added abandonment date
- October 11, 2019: Updated by Luke: Added location
- December 18, 2018: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
Sources
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- A Social History of Toulon Illinois
- Luke
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A closeup appears in the About Us section for the city of Wyoming. http://wyomingil.com/about-us/ Sadly it's not clear enough to make out the date stamp, and apppears to be part of a random set of images of the Rock Island, as there's also a picture of a RI train crossing a deck girder with another railroad bridge in the foreground, and Wyoming was a one railroad town...