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Crab Orchard Creek (W.L. Baker Ditch) Railroad Bridge

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Abandoned Rail Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in April 2012

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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Overview
Pony/through plate girder bridge over Crab Orchard Creek (W.L. Baker Ditch) on former Illinois Central Railroad
Location
Webster County, Kentucky
Status
Closed to all traffic
Design
Pony plate girder
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.45925, -87.84913   (decimal degrees)
37°27'33" N, 87°50'57" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/424903/4146159 (zone/easting/northing)
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Providence
Inventory number
BH 52399 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Closed (2,085)
Girder (3,288)
Illinois Central Railroad (218)
Kentucky (676)
Plate girder (2,285)
Rail-to-road (92)
Railroad (4,223)
Through girder (1,147)
Webster County, Kentucky (6)

Update Log 

  • May 7, 2012: Added by C Hanchey

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