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Otter Creek Rail Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt deck truss bridge over Otter Creek on Madison Railroad
- Location
- Jennings County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Future prospects
- Railroad is planning to replace this soon
- History
- Built 1890's
- Design
- Has two wooden trestles and also wooden cross beams inside the truss's also
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.98384, -85.60164 (decimal degrees)
38°59'02" N, 85°36'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/621116/4315912 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Vernon
- Inventory number
- BH 43580 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 16, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Bridge is to be replaced
- March 23, 2010: New photos from James McCray
- November 4, 2009: Added by J.P.
Related Bridges
- Madison Railroad - Vernon Fork Muscatatuck River Bridge (Same project) - Same rail line, Madison Branch of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis RR
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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I canoed under this bridge last Saturday (April 13th) in very high water. The bridge has gone through a complete restoration to a UCEB type bridge. It doesn't even look the same anymore. It appears new, tall concrete columns have been poured to support its weight load. This was planned for awhile but didn't know they (Madison Railroad Co.) were going to change the looks of the bridge. They also renovated the Vernon Railroad Bridge 1/4 mile NW of here over the Vernon Fork Muscatatuck River but not to the same degree. Sorry didn't take any pictures as the creek was flowing extremely fast.