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LOAM - Little River Bridge (Archie)

Catahoula Parish, Louisiana

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L&A - Little River Bridge

Louisiana

Photo taken by Douglas Butler

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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BH Photo #284895

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over Little River on Louisiana & Arkansas RR
Location
Archie, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana
Status
No longer exists
History
Built 1914
Builder
- Waddell & Harrington of Kansas City, Missouri
Railroads
- Louisiana Midland Railway (LOAM)
- Louisiana and Arkansas Railway (LA)
Design
Through truss vertical lift
Approximate latitude, longitude
+31.58256, -91.96545   (decimal degrees)
31°34'57" N, 91°57'56" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/598161/3494630 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Walters
Inventory number
BH 61238 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Archie, Louisiana (1)
Built 1914 (869)
Built during 1910s (10,082)
Catahoula Parish, Louisiana (12)
Have street view (29,925)
Lost (30,084)
Louisiana (733)
Louisiana Midland Railway (3)
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway (7)
 Movable (3,157)
Owned by railroad (13,750)
Railroad (16,686)
Span Drive Vertical Lift (90)
Through truss (17,911)
Truss (36,838)
Vertical lift (431)
Waddell & Harrington (48)
Waddell Vertical Lift (28)

Update Log 

  • December 3, 2019: New photos from Brian Allison
  • March 31, 2017: New Street View added by Cliff Darby
  • June 5, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • RR Picture Archives - Image
  • Luke
  • Cliff Darby - cliffsta1987 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Brian Allison
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Comments 

LOAM - Little River Bridge (Archie)
Posted December 6, 2019, by Cliff Darby (clif30 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Great photos, Brian! Thank you so much for sharing.

LOAM - Little River Bridge (Archie)
Posted February 19, 2017, by Cliff Darby (clif30 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

The piers still exist. Several bridges and small tressles exist along the grade all the way to feriday.