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MILW - Boom Island Bridge
Description
According to newspaper articles, this bridge came from "The Mississippi River". The size of the spans and dates match the Sabula bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Menominee River on Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Marinette, Menominee County, Michigan, and Marinette County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding during demolition
- History
- Built 1880 at Sabula, moved here 1907; Destroyed by flooding during remvoal 1969
- Builder
- - Rust & Coolidge of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroad
- - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Design
- Whipple through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 217.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +45.10567, -87.63034 (decimal degrees)
45°06'20" N, 87°37'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/450410/4994882 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 92824 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 27, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added history
- April 20, 2021: New photo from Luke
Related Bridges
- MILW - Sabula Bridge (Old) (Parts reused from)
Sources
- Luke
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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I found two article descriptions available online:
Mil. Rd. Begins Placing Concrete Piers For New Menominee River Bridge (9/20/1907)
Part Of Marinette's Mil. Rd. Bridge Came From Mississippi River (11/1/1907)
The article titles, the dates, plus 217' span lengths listed on railroad track charts all strongly suggest that this bridge reused two spans from the old bridge at Sabula, Iowa.
It's a bummer it got removed. This one was something special.