Rating:
44044
{82}%
2 votes
Voyageur Trail/Blue Ox Trail - Big Fork River Bridge
Photos
Big Fork River RR Bridge
Carries the Voyageur/Blue Ox Trail
Photo taken by Bob Morgan in August 2009
Enlarge
BH Photo #154552
Description
Former rail bridge, now used to carry the Blue Ox Hiking Trail and Voyageur Snowmobile Trail
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Big Fork River on Voyageur Trail/Blue Ox Trail
- Location
- Big Falls, Koochiching County, Minnesota
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built or Relocated Here in 1907
- Railroad
- - Northern Pacific Railroad (NP)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Also called
- Big Fork River Railroad Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +48.19539, -93.79742 (decimal degrees)
48°11'43" N, 93°47'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/440741/5338324 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Big Falls
- Inventory number
- BH 44044 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 22, 2018: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- June 21, 2018: Updated by John Marvig: Added Build/relocation Date from NP Bridge Book
- March 2, 2014: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- August 10, 2012: Updated by John Marvig: Added categories "railroad", "Rail-to-trail"
- August 2, 2010: New Street View added by Jason Smith
- February 24, 2010: Updated by Matthew Lohry: Updated bridge type
- February 7, 2010: Added by Bob Morgan
Sources
- Bob Morgan - morgans212 [at] att [dot] net
- Matt Lohry
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Remember, the ox was blue from the cold.