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UP - Port Allen Bridge
West Baton Rouge Parish
,
Louisiana
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UP Port Allen Railroad Bridge
Louisiana
Photo taken by Douglas Butler
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BH Photo #265945
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Lift Truss bridge over Port Allen Canal on Union Pacific Railroad
Location
Port Allen
,
West Baton Rouge Parish
,
Louisiana
Status
Open
Railroads
-
Missouri Pacific Railroad
(MP)
-
Union Pacific Railroad
(UP)
Design
Lift Truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.43263
,
-91.21152
(decimal degrees)
30°25'57" N, 91°12'41" W
(degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/671755/3368083
(zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Baton Rouge West
Inventory number
BH 53561
(Bridgehunter.com ID)
Categories
Have street view
(26,928)
Louisiana
(702)
Missouri Pacific Railroad
(380)
Movable
(2,970)
Navigable waterway
(2,152)
Open
(39,880)
Owned by railroad
(12,415)
Port Allen Canal
(1)
Port Allen, Louisiana
(3)
Railroad
(15,408)
Span Drive Vertical Lift
(90)
Truss
(32,768)
Union Pacific Railroad
(2,372)
Vertical lift
(420)
West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
(9)
Update Log
May 4, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
December 10, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
March 27, 2015: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley
February 18, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
October 10, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
September 7, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
September 17, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Union Pacific Railroad", "Navigable waterway", "Railroad"
September 17, 2012: Added by Jared Mixson
Sources
Jared
Intercoastal Waterway Vertical Lift Rail Bridge - Port Allen, LA
- Vertical Lift rail bridge. Located at the Port Allen Lock facility, and can be viewed easily and safely from a small park-like area.
Douglas Butler
Royce and Bobette Haley -
roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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