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Wisconsin Central Bridge

Delta County, Michigan
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Photo taken by C. Hanchey

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Overview
Lattice through truss bridge over Escanaba River on Wisconsin Central Railroad
Location
Wells, Delta County, Michigan
Status
Open to traffic
Future prospects
Canadian National Railway has filed an application with the Army Corp of Engineers to demolish this historic bridge.
History
Built 1892
Builder
- Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois
Design
Quadrangular Lattice through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 67.6 ft.
Total length: 675.0 ft.
Deck width: 10.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+45.78314, -87.06947   (decimal degrees)
45°46'59" N, 87°04'10" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/494600/5069955 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Gladstone
Inventory number
BH 49633 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
Built 1892 (86)
Built during 1890s (1,556)
Canadian National Railway (170)
Chicago & North Western Railway (470)
Delta County, Michigan (7)
Doomed (804)
Escabana River (3)
Have street view (9,894)
Lassig Bridge & Iron Works (39)
Lattice through truss (198)
Lattice truss (265)
Michigan (609)
 Open (28,313)
Owned by railroad (4,046)
Quadrangular lattice through truss (80)
Railroad (4,075)
Riveted (1,011)
Soo Line Railroad (127)
Span length 50-75 feet (6,996)
Through truss (9,210)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,805)
Truss (23,574)
Wells, Michigan (3)
Wisconsin Central Ltd. (16)

Update Log 

  • September 30, 2012: New photos from Jann Mayer
  • July 14, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added build date, builder, and re-imported photographs
  • November 18, 2011: Photo imported by Luke Harden
  • September 16, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: Added build date
  • September 16, 2011: Updated by Nathan Holth: Canadian National Railway Intends To Demolish This Bridge
  • September 15, 2011: Updated by Luke Harden: Edited type
  • September 15, 2011: Added by James McCray

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Wisconsin Central Bridge
Posted September 17, 2011, by David A. Shaw (scpry1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

I was on Youtube and I found this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWEZL5KuYGY

The bridge is at the end of the video.

Wisconsin Central Bridge
Posted September 16, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

This bridge is currently owned by Canadian National Railway (Wisconsin Central is merely a subsidiary unit of the company), who has applied to the Army Corp of Engineers for demolition of this, one of Michigan's longest truss bridges and one of our only lattice truss bridges. The bridge was originally built as a five span bridge and converted to a ten span bridge. It was originally built by Chicago and Northwestern Railway who liked lattice truss bridges. I have a few poor copies of original plan sheets for the bridge but haven't posted them online yet. I did post some photos for the bridge recently on HistoricBridges.org here: http://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=michigan/lattice/

Wisconsin Central Bridge
Posted September 15, 2011, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

It's actually a Quadruple Warren (Warren Quadrangular)truss that is found on a number of railroad spans.

Very nice bridge!

Wisconsin Central Bridge
Posted September 15, 2011, by James McCray (jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com)

Bridge trusses look like a Whipple. Am I correct?