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IB&W - Possum Trot Bridge
Photos
Remaining footer
Photo taken by Mike Roegner
BH Photo #272878
Description
"Another dangerous point on the road known as "Possum Trot" exists a few miles west of this city, at the crossing of the middle fork of the Vermilion River, and the company is at present engaged in changing the alignment of the road for a few miles, putting in a viaduct 1,300 ft. long, and making heavy cuts and fills. The improvement will cost many thousands of dollars but will almost surely avoid a repetition of the North Fork wreck at that point."
Engineering News, Volume 30, 1893
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck truss bridge over Middle Fork Vermilion River on former Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railroad west of Danville
- Location
- Vermilion County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1868, replaced in 1921
- Railroads
- - Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (CCC&StL; Big Four)
- Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railway (IB&W)
- Design
- Main spans: Howe deck truss
Approaches: Timber Stringer
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.11860, -87.72824 (decimal degrees)
40°07'07" N, 87°43'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/437944/4441174 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Danville SW
- Inventory number
- BH 59228 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 15, 2014: Added by Jacob P. Bernard