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Main Street Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Wabash River on Main Street and Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co.
- Location
- Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Built 1890, Additional trusses for the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co. added in 1895.; Lost 1913
- Builder
- - Lafayette Bridge Co. of Lafayette, Indiana
- Railroads
- - Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Co. (FtW&WV)
- Fort Wayne, Logansport, Lafayette & Lima Traction Co. (FtWLL&L)
- Lafayette Street Railway
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.41846, -86.89872 (decimal degrees)
40°25'06" N, 86°53'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/508591/4474209 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lafayette West
- Inventory number
- BH 65849 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Main Street Bridge
http://www.jconline.com/story/news/history/2014/09/17/pedest...
You have the incorrect date for when the Main Street bridge was built.
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Actually Nick, the article has an incorrect date. The much documented 1890 date is indeed correct.