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BNSF - Neosho River Bridge (Emporia)
Description
Build date comes from Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway bridge records at Temple, TX Railroad Museum.Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Neosho River on BNSF Railroad
- Location
- Lyon County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1897
- Builder
- - American Bridge Works of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.42615, -96.12248 (decimal degrees)
38°25'34" N, 96°07'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/751193/4257020 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lang
- Land survey
- T. 19 S., R. 12 E., Sec. 6
- Elevation
- 1100 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 38374 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 11, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- December 20, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added likely builder based on 1897 ATSF bridge program
- September 3, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- September 3, 2017: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- December 15, 2008: Added by Robert Elder
Related Bridges
- ATSF - Delaware River Bridge (Old) (Same design)
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Engineering News and American Railway Journal 1897-12-09: Vol 38 Iss 24
- Geoff Hubbs
Comments
BNSF - Neosho River Bridge (Emporia)
I don't seem to have much success finding build dates on RR bridges other than plaques. How did you figure out the date for this one?
BNSF - Neosho River Bridge (Emporia)
Beat me to this one Nick! I love your photos!!
BNSF - Neosho River Bridge (Emporia)
119 years old? Gorgeous.
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Clark,
I believe I added the date from a newspapers.com article mentioning the construction of a new bridge over the Neosho on the Emporia-Topeka line. Railroad bridge dates can be a pain to track down. It's a lot of basing it off of identical structures and when the railroads reconstructed the line.