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Agate Falls Bridge

Ontonagon County, Michigan
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Agate Falls Railroad Trestle

Old railroad trestle on the former Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic City Railroad in Ontonagon County, Michigan. The bridge is located over Agate Falls on the Ontonagon River.

Photo taken August 2011 by Flickr user cmh2315fl

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Ontonagon River on Bergland to Sidnaw Rail Trail
Location
Ontonagon County, Michigan
Status
Open to pedestrians/bicyclists/snowmobiles
History
Built 1900 by the American Bridge Company.
Builder
- American Bridge Co. of New York (Lassig Branch in Chicago, Illinois)
Design
Deck plate girder
Approximate latitude, longitude
+46.48063, -89.09040   (decimal degrees)
46°28'50" N, 89°05'25" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/339544/5149574 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Trout Creek
Inventory number
BH 53031 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (449)
Built 1900 (699)
Built during 1900s (4,246)
Deck girder (1,800)
Duluth, South Shore, & Atlantic Railway (8)
Girder (3,236)
 Michigan (609)
Ontonagon County, Michigan (4)
Open to Pedestrians (2,084)
Plate girder (2,250)
Rail-to-trail (494)

Update Log 

  • July 30, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected builder
  • July 30, 2012: Added by James Baughn

Sources 

  • Luke Harden - lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com

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