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LOAM - Black River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Black River on Louisiana & Arkansas RR
- Location
- Jonesville, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, and Concordia Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Operations ceased 1985 and likely scrapped at or around that time.
- Builders
- - Union Bridge & Construction Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
- Waddell & Harrington of Kansas City, Missouri
- Railroads
- - Louisiana Midland Railway (LOAM)
- Louisiana and Arkansas Railway (LA)
- Design
- Pratt through truss vertical lift
- Also called
- L&A - Black River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +31.61822, -91.81589 (decimal degrees)
31°37'06" N, 91°48'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/612310/3498727 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Jonesville South
- Inventory number
- BH 61917 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 17, 2017: New photo from Jeff Dubea
- March 31, 2017: New Street View added by Cliff Darby
- September 12, 2016: New photo from Luke
- July 24, 2014: Updated by Luke: Added link to railfan site showing a Louisiana Midland train on the bridge
- July 24, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Sources
- Jeff Dubea
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Mississippi Rails - Imagery
- Abandoned Rails - Louisiana Midland - Photo 7 features the bridge
- RR Picture Archives - Image
- Cliff Darby - clif30 [at] hotmail [dot] com
© Copyright 2002-18, James Baughn and contributors.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/la/catahoula/bh61917/
Also, I think the coordinates are inaccurate for this former bridge. If you look at Google Earth, the old rail bed and the old piers are significantly north of where the marker is placed.