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42650
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CIRwy - White River Bridge
Description
Railroad was abandoned in 1982 and tracks pulled up. ROW bought by Indiana Transportation Museum 1986, who had plans to one day rebuild line. City of Noblesville bought old line in 1991. Approaches have been removed for a long time
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over White River on former Conrail Railroad in Noblesville
- Location
- Noblesville, Hamilton County, Indiana
- Status
- Abandoned, but intact
- Future prospects
- City of Noblesville in conjunction with the City of Westfield and Midland Trace Trail group are to convert this bridge for pedestrians.
- History
- Built 1893, abandoned in 1982
- Builder
- - Union Bridge Co. of Buffalo, New York & Athens, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Central Indiana Railway (CIRwy)
- Conrail (CR)
- Midland Railway
- Design
- Pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.04078, -86.02479 (decimal degrees)
40°02'27" N, 86°01'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/583194/4432738 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Noblesville
- Inventory number
- BH 42650 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 15, 2014: Photo imported by James Norwood
- January 23, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- November 19, 2009: New photos from Joshua Collins
- June 3, 2009: Essay added by James Norwood
Sources
- James Norwood
- Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
Here's a link to a video I recently did about the bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbDC_IgJFhA