Rating:
2 votes
Flint Hills Nature Trail - Rock Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Rock Creek on Flint Hills Nature Trail (former MoPac railroad)
- Location
- Morris County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1930
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroad
- - Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Also called
- MoPac - Rock Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.61070, -96.37028 (decimal degrees)
38°36'39" N, 96°22'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/728972/4276857 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Americus
- Inventory number
- BH 65937 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 27, 2018: Updated by Dave King: Added category "American Bridge Co.", date built & design
- January 27, 2018: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- February 9, 2015: Updated by Max : Added categories "Rail-to-trail", "Missouri Pacific Railroad", "Flint Hills Nature Trail"
Sources
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
Flint Hills Nature Trail - Rock Creek Bridge
Absolute monster, built 1930, several hundred feet long, like all other Flint Hills rail-to-trail bridges as of Jan. 2018, crews are driving large trucks on trail and maintaining, repairing, and new construction going on, trail still seems to be open during this process... on this one in particular, new material being laid down and compacted for pedestrians, and new welded railings going up. Gigantic cement pillars - bit overwhelming, pictures can't capture it all
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American Bridge Co. out of NY.