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Landon Nature Trail - 110 Mile Creek Bridge (Future Name)
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned through truss bridge over 110 Mile Creek on Abandoned Railroad Grade
- Location
- Osage County, Kansas
- Status
- Abandoned but will probably be incorporated into a trail.
- Future prospects
- Will likely be reused on the Landon Rail Trail
- Railroad
- - Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
- Design
- Five panel, pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Also called
- MoPac - 110 Mile Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.61630, -95.51422 (decimal degrees)
38°36'59" N, 95°30'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/281102/4277196 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Quenemo
- Inventory number
- BH 42196 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 28, 2017: New photos from John Marvig
- January 22, 2017: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: Added category "Othmar H. Ammann Nominee"
- November 6, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- November 6, 2016: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- February 13, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Missouri Pacific Railroad"
- February 13, 2014: Updated by Robert Elder: Updated design and design description.
- February 7, 2012: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited Status description as this bridge is not yet open to pedestrians.
- May 31, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited Future prospects and Categories.
- April 3, 2009: Added by Robert Elder
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Landon Nature Trail - 110 Mile Creek Bridge (Future Name)
Made it to this one with my buddy Wayne on Saturday. Very much looking forward to the nature trail opening up through this, neat old bridge
110 Mile Creek Bridge
Panoramio photograph of this bridge. The photograph is "All Rights Reserved", so I am just going to post a link.
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/101529660?source=wapi&referre...
The bridge is a 5-panel Pratt truss. If I had to guess a construction date, I would say ca. 1885-1895. It looks too heavy to be earlier than that, but it does not have the standardized appearance of a post-1900 bridge either.
110 Mile Creek Bridge
Bing Maps has some new aerial imagery for the area. This one looks very lightweight for a railroad bridge. Hopefully the Landon Trail folks will re-use it and not replace it with a MOB.
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I found a report that two 110' iron through trusses were built on the Little Rock & Ft. Smith Division of the Missouri Pacific in 1891/1892. I have not seen any other 110' trusses listed, meaning this could possibly be one of those two trusses. While not confirmed, it may point us in the right direction at least.