Little Potato Creek CR 900E Bridge

Photo

See this photo at the DNR website

Photo courtesy of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resource, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology.

BH Photo #221412

Large bedstead with unusually wide 17'6" panels (4) helps to identify this as a Lafayette built span.

Overview: Lost pony truss bridge over Little Potato Creek on CR 900 East
Location: Montgomery County, Indiana
Status: Road is closed and bridge has been removed
History: Built 1894 by the Lafayette Bridge Company
Builder: - Lafayette Bridge Co. of Lafayette, Indiana
Design: 4-panel, pinned Bedstead Pratt pony truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 67.2 ft.
Total length: 68.9 ft.
Deck width: 13.4 ft.
Also called: Old County Bridge #28
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.16761, -86.73385 (decimal degrees)
40°10'03" N, 86°44'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 16/522663/4446394 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Colfax
Inventory numbers: INNBI 5400021 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 16677 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Little Potato Creek Bridge

Posted December 4, 2011, by Richard Tekulve (canoeindiana [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This was originally bridge #28 on an official 1978 Montgomery County road map I have in my inventory of county road maps.