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BNSF - Chestnut Street Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over Chestnut Ave. on Bnsf Railroad
- Location
- Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1930
- Railroads
- - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 20.0 ft.
Total length: 56.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.06361, -97.03194 (decimal degrees)
37°03'49" N, 97°01'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/674973/4103740 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Arkansas City
- Inventory number
- BH 45649 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 5, 2013: New photos from David Backlin
- September 2, 2013: New Street View added by David Backlin
- May 27, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway", "Railroad"
- July 14, 2010: Added by Robert Elder
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
Comments
BNSF - Chestnut Street Overpass
Yes, I have heard the name "Subway" used before. Structures like this seem to be known as tunnels colloquially these days.
BNSF - Chestnut Street Overpass
I've seen these sort of overpasses referred to as "subways" on occasion. That nickname (Which is common in Europe) seemed to fall out of favor due to the confusion with subway transit systems.
Some of them are locally referred to as tunnels, like two in Houston, Texas are.
BNSF - Chestnut Street Overpass
I noticed both this bridge and BNSF-Madison street have a wooden and concrete railing on either side.Why is that?
BNSF - Chestnut Street Overpass
The Tunnel VS. Not Tunnel debate always makes me think of this structure and its twin on Madison.
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Yeah, I'm not opposed to changing names of those that are colloquially referred to as tunnels to say as such, but it should be made abundantly clear that unlike the cut-and-cover construction Royce is arguing against (Despite it typifying said construction style), these aren't considered tunnels on an engineering-level.
Another example of this would be the "Awful Tunnels" in Omaha.
Common nickname amongst drivers, but neither the city nor the railroad engineering department ever considered them tunnels.