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ATSF - North Cottonwood River Bridge

Marion County, Kansas

Photos 

Looking North

Photo taken by Bing Bird's Eye View

BH Photo #202380

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Abandoned pony plate girder with pile trestle approaches over North Cottonwood River on Abandoned ex-Central Kansas Railway(nee ATSF Railroad)
Location
Marion County, Kansas
Status
Derelict/abandoned
History
Built 1922
Railroads
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- Central Kansas Railway (CKRY)
Design
Pony plate girder with pile trestle approaches.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 168.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.35896, -97.07210   (decimal degrees)
38°21'32" N, 97°04'20" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/668443/4247402 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Marion
Land survey
T. 19 S., R. 3 E., Sec. 35
Elevation
1300 ft. above sea level
Inventory number
BH 45628 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (4,014)
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (484)
Beam (17,377)
Built 1922 (756)
Built during 1920s (10,440)
Central Kansas Railway (15)
Girder (11,662)
Kansas (3,292)
 Marion County, Kansas (95)
North Cottonwood River (2)
Plate girder (9,176)
Railroad (17,003)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,806)
Through girder (4,381)
Total length 125-175 feet (6,474)

Update Log 

  • June 26, 2018: Updated by John Marvig: Added information from ATSF Railway Bridge Records
  • July 27, 2016: Updated by Clark Vance: Added design type
  • June 22, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
  • July 14, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Added to Cottonwood River (Kansas) category
  • July 12, 2010: Added by Sheldon

Sources 

  • Sheldon Wiens
  • Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
  • John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comments 

Cottonwood River ATSF Bridge
Posted June 23, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Or the old fashioned way... push the Print Screen key and paste into paint, and crop out what you want.

Are there any copyright issues associated with using these Bing images in this manner? I don't really know.

Cottonwood River ATSF Bridge
Posted June 23, 2011, by Ben Tate

I've got a "snipping tool" that lets me save any area of my computer screen. It comes in handy.

Cottonwood River ATSF Bridge
Posted June 23, 2011, by Sheldon Wiens (sheldon_wiens77 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

I actually saw this exact bing maps bird's eye view. I could have copied it and added it to the site, but I couldn't find how to copy and paste it here.

Cottonwood River ATSF Bridge
Posted June 22, 2011, by Ben Tate

There appears to be abutments still in the water, so I'm guessing the whole bridge used to be a timber trestle.