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UTC - Wabash River Bridges
Photos
Looking at North side piers from South East Wabash River Road
North side of Kienly Island at left looking from Upstream. Other piers on other side of Island would be to left out of picture
Photo taken by James Norwood
BH Photo #136722
Description
Built to carry the Indiana Union Traction Company cars from Kokomo and Indianapolis across the Wabash River into Logansport on trackage shared with Ft. Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Co. that started North side of bridgesFacts
- Overview
- Lost Deck girder bridges over channel of Wabash River on former Indiana Union Traction at Keinley Island
- Location
- Logansport, Cass County, Indiana
- Status
- Lost
- Future prospects
- Bridge piers are still intact, Kienly Island which is between the two bridges is privately owned.
- History
- Built ca. 1905
- Railroads
- - Indiana Rail Road (INRD)
- Interurban
- Union Traction Company of Indiana (UTC)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Also called
- IR - Wabash River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.74127, -86.32309 (decimal degrees)
40°44'29" N, 86°19'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/557151/4510256 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Anoka
- Inventory number
- BH 42244 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 13, 2009: New photo from James Norwood
- April 9, 2009: New photo from James Norwood
- April 7, 2009: Added by James Norwood
Sources
- James Norwood
- South Wabash River Road looking East at South approach. - Left side of pic's support is still there, abutment to right is cut back to make Road wider.
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View from North bank of Wabash River looking at piers with Kienly Island in background can be found at http://home.att.net/~burtontun/logansport1.htm