Photos
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Overview This is an interesting bridge. Depending on which way you cross, each truss section either increases or decreases in size. Photo taken by James McCray |
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Deck View Photo taken by James McCray |
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Oblique View Photo taken by James McCray |
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North End Photo taken by James McCray |
Facts
- Overview
- Three-span pony truss bridge over Blue River on Main Street in Milltown
- Location
- Crawford County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1913; rehabilitated 1977
- Design
- Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 75.1 ft.
Total length: 168.9 ft.
Deck width: 13.7 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.34028, -86.27333 (decimal degrees)
38°20'25" N, 86°16'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/563503/4243820 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Milltown
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 1300067 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 15971 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 56.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1999)
- 120
Comments
There's discussion about making it a foot bridge after they build the new bridge upstream at the site of the old railway bridge, about 150 yards upstream from the present bridge.
Money seems to be the big holdup here. Being on the county line, neither county wants to foot the bill.
Anyone out there heard that the bridge might be torn down and a new bridge built? I think this bridge was metioned in the Corydon Democrat in March or early April (2008). I'm always searching for information regarding Crawford Co. in my search for ancestors, so I'm not sure where I came across this information.
C. Beringer