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C&EI - Collison Trestle
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned Deck truss bridge over Middle Fork Vermilion River on former Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad northwest of Collison
- Location
- Vermilion County, Illinois
- Status
- Abandoned
- History
- Built ca. 1894, abandoned ca. 1990s?
- Railroad
- - Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad (CEI)
- Design
- Main span: Warren deck truss
Approaches: Deck plate girder - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 125.0 ft.
Total length: 310.0 ft.
- Also called
- Collison Trestle
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.24477, -87.77770 (decimal degrees)
40°14'41" N, 87°46'40" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/433852/4455214 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Collison
- Inventory number
- BH 47957 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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This is not a former Conrail or NYC bridge but was a former C&EI bridge after looking at the location. The bypass from Rossville Jct. ran south to the mines around Westville and Georgetown IL linking up the former Grape Creek branch to Villa Grove outside west of Indianola if I remember right on the route. This bridge was also used by the EJ&E which had trackage rights on the C&EI to reach the mines in this area to bypass Danville which especially at that time heavily congested with rail traffic around Danville Jct. The Danville Jct Society of the NHRS out of Danville with a museum in Rossville has more information on this line. It was cutback to Collison then Henning. At onetime the line was used to haul coal to the IP powerplant west of Danville.
Grayson