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Bloomington Southern - Victor Pike Trestle
Description
Bridge is located along the East side of Victor Pike just South of a diamond with a former Monon Railroad branch line to several other quarries. Just South of here is the much larger Wright Branch bridge. This line and Monon line all abandoned today.Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned Timber stringer bridge over unknown creek on former Illinois Central Railroad south of Bloomington
- Location
- Monroe County, Indiana
- Status
- Abandoned
- Future prospects
- Could be used for future extension of Bloomington rail trails.
- History
- Built by Illinois Central's subsidiary Bloomington Southern Railroad to reach the Victor stone Quarry.
- Railroads
- - Bloomington Southern Railroad (BS)
- Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- Design
- Timber stringer
- Also called
- IC - Victor Pike Trestle
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.07953, -86.56863 (decimal degrees)
39°04'46" N, 86°34'07" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/537311/4325690 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Clear Creek
- Inventory number
- BH 50890 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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Monroe County has acquired the RoW of the IC Indiana Southern and this former branch line is going to be converted to a trail. This bridge will either be refurbished or replaced, along with the wooden trestle along Victor Pike south of this bridge.