Rating:
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CR 510 Bridge
Description
Bridge was relocated from a crossing over the Alleghany River in Pennsylvania in 1919 and erected at this location over the Dead River in 1921 as part of highway M-35.Facts
- Overview
- Pennsylvania through truss bridge over Dead River on former CR 510
- Location
- Marquette County, Michigan
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Originally built in Pennsylvania around the turn of the century. Acquired by the state of Michigan in 1919 and erected in 1921. Closed to traffic in 2010.
- Builders
- - C.M. Neeld Construction Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Gust Anderson
- Illinois Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- R.L. Ericson
- Design
- 8-panel, pinned Pennsylvania through truss (Camelback format)
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 264.8 ft.
Total length: 271.0 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 24.0 ft.
- Also called
- Dead River Bridge
Steel Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +46.56111, -87.54222 (decimal degrees)
46°33'40" N, 87°32'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/458440/5156536 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Negaunee
- Average daily traffic (as of 1994)
- 1,256
- Inventory numbers
- MINBI 52200031000B010 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2010 and before)
MINEW 06555 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2011 and later)
BH 20133 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of June 2011)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 2 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 1, 2018: Photo imported by Dave King
- August 13, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- September 2, 2011: Updated by Tony Dillon: Modified build date
- August 8, 2011: Updated by C Hanchey: Added historical info
Sources
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
Comments
CR 510 Bridge
The Tubes said it best... "She's A Beauty!"
CR 510 Bridge
This winter may have given us more cold and snow than we really needed, but here's a picturesque reminder of its good side: https://expo.advance.net/img/3ed966134a/width960/342_021519u...
Credit: MLive. Actually it was randomly used in an article about a recent rescue of a group of snowmobilers elsewhere in the county and has nothing to do with the bridge itself, but why pass this up?
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Scroll to the bottom on this page to find a few additional photos of this bridge, which is referred to as the Steel Bridge for whatever reason. Two of them are from a May 2003 flood, one which BH 53429 (on CR 550) also survived.