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MoPac - Algiers Canal Bridge

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

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UP - Algiers Canal Bridge

Louisiana

Photo taken by Douglas Butler

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BH Photo #285096

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Overview
Through truss bridge over Algiers Canal (Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) on former Union Pacific RR
Location
Belle Chasse, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
Status
Closed to traffic
History
Built 1957 by the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Builder
- Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff Corporation of Kansas City, Kansas
Railroads
- Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP; MoPac)
- New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design
Through truss vertical lift
Approximate latitude, longitude
+29.87209, -90.00885   (decimal degrees)
29°52'20" N, 90°00'32" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/788925/3308370 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Bertrandville
Inventory number
BH 61296 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Belle Chasse, Louisiana (4)
Built 1957 (265)
Built during 1950s (3,673)
Canal (32)
Closed (2,571)
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (3)
Have street view (25,399)
Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff Corporation (28)
Louisiana (671)
Missouri Pacific Railroad (317)
Movable (2,843)
 Navigable waterway (2,091)
New Orleans & Gulf Coast Railway (1)
Owned by railroad (11,098)
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (10)
Railroad (14,358)
Span Drive Vertical Lift (90)
Through truss (14,024)
Truss (31,212)
Union Pacific Railroad (2,161)
Vertical lift (414)

Update Log 

  • August 29, 2017: New photos from Luke
  • August 29, 2017: New photos from Douglas Butler
  • June 7, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • May 4, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • December 12, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • June 12, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • June 9, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • Luke

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