ATSF - Old Limit Street Overpass
Description
Build date comes from Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway bridge records at Temple, TX Railroad Museum.Facts
- Overview
- Closed-spandrel arch bridge over Limit Street on Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
- Location
- Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas
- Status
- Not visible, removed and/or filled in.
- History
- Built 1900; Road relocated 1976
- Railroad
- - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- Design
- 1 63' Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
-
Span length: 20.0 ft.
Total length: 20.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.28872, -94.91295 (decimal degrees)
39°17'19" N, 94°54'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/335023/4350561 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Leavenworth
- Land survey
- T. 9 S., R. 22 E., Sec. 12
- Elevation
- 780 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 79621 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 21, 2020: Updated by John Marvig: added information from ATSF Bridge Records
- December 3, 2017: Added by Luke
Related Bridges
- Limit Street Bridge (Same project)
- ATSF - Fivemile Creek Arch Bridge (Same project)
Sources
- Luke
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
So, since it's clearly visible in historic aerial imagery, they must have removed the structure and filled it in.
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/17565774/ Shows a picture of them excavating at the new bridge, which, by virtue of being larger, would've provided more than enough fill to fill in the gap.
I walked the north side of the RR embankment from the creek east to the driveway. The brush was thin enough to see the ground and I saw no trace of anything that hinted of a 60' arch.
Attached aerial imagery screencap from HistoricAerials shows the bridge over Limit Street to be separate from the creek b ridge.
Limit street used to continue straight to the west rather than curve north to miss the RR.
http://bridgehunter.com/ks/leavenworth/bh54987/
I have walked the area in summer and didn't see where the road went under the RR grade but foliage can hide things.
Certainly not the same bridge type listed here, but this beautiful double arch most likely same bridge....locations identical
Hard to say if this one still exists. There's one thought, which says if it did, someone would have noticed it by now. Then again, it's extremely overgrown. I doubt it's any less than partially filled in if it does still exist however.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ks/leavenworth/bh79621/
April 28 1977
The Leavenworth Times