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Wea Creek Bridge
Photo
Wea Creek Bridge
Journal and Courier: July 9 1963
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BH Photo #443646
Description
The bridge laying on it's side suggests to me that the driver indeed struck one of the endposts and caused the bridge to roll.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Wea Creek on South 18th Street
- Location
- Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge in 1963
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- 6-panel, pinned Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 75.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.34389, -86.87555 (decimal degrees)
40°20'38" N, 86°52'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/510569/4465934 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 84476 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 27, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder.
- February 16, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type
- February 16, 2019: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
They were using the solid plaques by that time Art, so per the usual the news article was likely just off a "bit".
http://bridgehunter.com/in/floyd/blackiston-mill/ (pic #5)