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Back Bone Road Bridge

Vermilion County, Illinois

Photos 

May, 1980

BH Photo #189745

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over former C&EI Railroad on Back Bone Road south of Danville
Location
Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois
Status
Replaced by new bridge
History
Built 1872, replaced in 1980
Railroad
- Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (CEI)
Design
Pin-connected, 7-panel Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.10274, -87.59644   (decimal degrees)
40°06'10" N, 87°35'47" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/449163/4439331 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Danville SE
Inventory number
BH 47219 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (6,448)
Built 1872 (87)
Built during 1870s (927)
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (36)
Danville, Illinois (44)
Illinois (3,996)
Lost (19,922)
Lost 1980 (65)
 Lost during 1980s (1,100)
Owned by township (2,369)
Pratt through truss (4,717)
Pratt truss (8,206)
Replaced by new bridge (13,196)
Through truss (13,228)
Truss (29,967)
Vermilion County, Illinois (117)

Update Log 

  • December 28, 2010: New photo from Mike Roegner
  • December 3, 2010: Added by Mike Roegner

Sources 

  • Mike Roegner
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Back Bone Road Bridge
Posted December 4, 2010, by Robert Stephenson (seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

I think there was another bridge, just west of this one over the Big Vermilion river.