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Sugar Creek Trail Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Deck girder bridge over Sugar Creek on Montgomery County Sugar Creek Trail (former Conrail Railroad)
- Location
- Montgomery County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic as a pedestrian bridge
- History
- Built ca. 1920's for the Peoria and Eastern Railroad
- Railroads
- - Conrail (CR)
- Peoria & Eastern Railroad (P&E)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Total length: 383.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.04228, -86.96311 (decimal degrees)
40°02'32" N, 86°57'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/503146/4432450 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Crawfordsville
- Inventory number
- BH 45074 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 5, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Updated status to reflect trail use
- April 27, 2010: Updated by James Norwood: Corrected railroad info, creek name
- April 26, 2010: Added by Jacob P. Bernard
Sources
- Jacob P. Bernard
- James Norwood
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
Sugar Creek Big Four Railroad Bridge
This is a picture of the deck now, I don't claim credit for the picture I copied it from Indiana Trails.org giving all credit where credit is due.
Sugar Creek Big Four Railroad Bridge
According to Bird's eye view this bridge is located on the Montgomery County Sugar Creek Trail. The picture here is from 1972. The trail builders have totally changed the character of the bridge to make it safer for trail use. It no longer even remotely looks like the picture above.
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Below this bridge on the banks of Sugar Creek is the largest public access site for fossils and criniods in the state of Indiana. You can just be walking and find fossils by looking down