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NS - Mackinaw River Bridge
Photos
Looking West
Photo taken by Steve Conro in May 2012
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BH Photo #231521
Description
Not sure of the date but the well crafted stone piers suggest early 1900's. This rail line appears on a 1912 township map as the Lake Erie & Western Railway.
Facts
- Overview
- Deck truss bridge over Mackinaw River on Norfolk Southern RR
- Location
- Woodford County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1947
- Railroads
- - Lake Erie & Western Railroad (LE&W)
- New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad (NKP)
- Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Design
- Three span Deck truss with deck plate girder approaches. Nice old stone piers.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 170.0 ft.
Total length: 590.0 ft.
- Also called
- LE&W - Mackinaw River Bridge
NKP - Mackinaw River Bridge
N&W - Mackinaw River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.62486, -89.23947 (decimal degrees)
40°37'30" N, 89°14'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/310586/4499525 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Danvers
- Inventory number
- BH 50881 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 13, 2017: New photos from John Marvig
- January 10, 2016: Updated by John Marvig: added build date
- July 16, 2015: New photos from John Marvig
- October 9, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
- May 14, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
- May 8, 2012: Updated by Steve Conro: Added category "Lake Erie and Western Railroad"
- January 9, 2012: Added by Steve Conro
Related Bridges
- NS - Grimm Road Overpass (Same project) - Stone work simular to bridge piers a few hundred feet away. Suggests same project.
Visited and shot pictures today. Will have posted next week. Also discovered old stone arch bridge just west of this bridge. Stone work looks a lot like the stone work on the bridge piers.