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KCC&S - Blue River Bridge
Description
This right of way was completed in the early 1870s. There are cut stones showing beneath the concrete on the west abutment and they may have had concrete placed over them later. The date and the abutment structure suggest that there may have been an early bridge that was later replaced and perhaps the grade raised to avoid the flooding common in this area.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Blue River on Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield RR
- Location
- Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Rail line may have been built as early as 1870. Abandoned20 Sep 1928, scrapped shortly thereafter.
- Railroads
- - Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield Railway (KCC&S)
- Lawrence & Pleasant Hill Railroad Co. (L&PH)
- Pleasant Hill & DeSoto Railroad Co. (PH&D)
- St. Louis, Lawrence & Denver Railroad Co. (StLL&D)
- St. Louis, Lawrence & Western Railroad Co. (StLL&W)
- St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (SLSF; Frisco)
- Design
- From the length of the crossing and the seats on the abutments it might have been a through truss.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.85411, -94.60854 (decimal degrees)
38°51'15" N, 94°36'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/360424/4301816 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Belton
- Elevation
- 950 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 60430 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- KCC&S - Leaky Roof Bridge (Same project)
Sources
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- TACNET - Abandonment information
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