Rating:
3 votes
ATSF - Cottonwood River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned pony plate girder with pile trestle approaches over Cottonwood River on Abandoned ex-Central Kansas Railway(nee ATSF Railroad)
- Location
- Marion County, Kansas
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- Railroad
- - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- Design
- Pony plate girder with pile trestle approaches.
- 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)
Update Log
- 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
Comments
Cottonwood River ATSF Bridge
I've got a "snipping tool" that lets me save any area of my computer screen. It comes in handy.
Cottonwood River ATSF Bridge
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
There appears to be abutments still in the water, so I'm guessing the whole bridge used to be a timber trestle.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ks/marion/bh45628/
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.