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River Greenway Trail - St. Mary's River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over St. Mary's River on Trail, formerly Erie Western Railroad(nee Erie Lackawanna, Chicago & Atlantic Railroads)
- Location
- Decatur, Adams County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Railroad was abandoned in early1980's. Trail extends across bridge and East for a short distance along old railroad right of way.
- Railroads
- - Chicago & Atlantic Railway
- Chicago & Erie Railroad (C&E)
- Erie Lackawanna Railroad (EL)
- Erie Railroad (ERIE)
- Erie Western Railway (ERES)
- Design
- Double-barreled pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Also called
- Erie - St. Mary's River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.82493, -84.91670 (decimal degrees)
40°49'30" N, 84°55'00" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/675677/4521411 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Decatur
- Inventory number
- BH 44609 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 10, 2012: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "Erie Western Railroad", "St. Mary's River", "Rail-to-trail"
- November 16, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- March 25, 2010: Added by James Norwood
Sources
- James Norwood
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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This one is quite interesting. It is pretty obvious that a second half was added on at some point, perhaps before 1910. It looks like the two tracks are identical, so perhaps they came from somewhere else and were merged into a double track structure?