Bridgehunter.com | Au Train River Railroad Bridge

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Looking north

The penstock pipe supplies a generating station half a mile away, in a 200 foot deep gorge.

Photo taken by Robert Thompson in May 2012

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Overview: Closed-spandrel arch bridge over Au Train River on Coalwood Trail (formerly LS&I RR)
Location: Alger County, Michigan
Status: Open to pedestrians
History: Built 1930
Design: Closed-spandrel arch
Approximate latitude, longitude: +46.33272, -86.85007 (decimal degrees)
46°19'58" N, 86°51'00" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 16/511539/5131027 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Forest Lake
Inventory number: BH 52300 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

May 16, 2012: Updated by Clark Vance: Corrected bujild date from 1920 to 1930 date on bridge
May 15, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Removed category "Railroad" as it is not active
May 14, 2012: New photos from Robert Thompson
April 30, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks

Sources

Frank Hicks
Robert Thompson
Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth

Comments

Au Train River Railroad Bridge

Posted May 16, 2012, by Ed Hollowell (erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com)

I believe that just because the railroad has been abandoned, the classification of the bridge class as a railroad bridge would not be changed. It's still a railroad bridge because that was what it was built as.