Logansport 3rd St. Wabash River Bridge

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3rd Street Truss early 1900's

This bridge had a another truss segment added for Interurban line sometime after construction. Great Flood of 1913 took out this bridge and a Concrete Luten Arch bridge replaced it.

Indiana Digital Image Library

BH Photo #159579

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Facts

Overview: Lost Bridge over Wabash River on 3rd St on North side of Biddle Island
Location: Logansport, Cass County, Indiana
Status: Replaced by new bridge
History: Originally crossed by wooden bridges, and later Iron through truss. At one time Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Company had a track across the East side of Iron truss bridge until it's abandonment. Later a Concrete Arch bridge was here.
Railroads: - Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co. (FtW&WV)
- Interurban
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 109.3 ft.
Total length: 292.0 ft.
Deck width: 47.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.75076, -86.36633 (decimal degrees)
40°45'03" N, 86°21'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 16/553493/4511282 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Logansport
Average daily traffic (as of 2013): 13,125
Inventory numbers: INNBI 0900140 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 44643 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of June 2015): Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 73.1 (out of 100)
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Update Log

June 20, 2014: Updated by James Norwood: added notation that Indiana 25 rerouted across the current bridge due to Hoosier Heartland Highway route reconfiguration in Logansport 2014
May 26, 2010: New photo from James Norwood
March 28, 2010: Updated by James Norwood: corrected GPS coordinates, added details.
March 28, 2010: Added by Anthony Dillon

Sources

Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
James Norwood