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Metra - Marley Creek Bridge #3
Description
Originally built to carry two tracks across Marley Creek
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over Marley Creek (aka Hickory Creek) on Metra
- Location
- Homer Glen, Will County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to rail traffic
- History
- Original 55' pile trestle bridge at this location built 1880; replaced 1930 with this bridge
- Railroads
- - Commuter Rail
- Metra (METX)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 16.0 ft.
Total length: 64.8 ft.
Deck width: 30.0 ft.
- Also called
- Wabash - Marley Creek Bridge #3
Wabash Railroad Bridge #1067
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.55965, -87.91004 (decimal degrees)
41°33'35" N, 87°54'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/424114/4601286 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mokena
- Inventory number
- BH 64719 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 15, 2014: Added by James Holzmeier