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CGW - Zumbro River Bridge

Olmsted County, Minnesota

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Postcard provided by Oliver Hammond

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Facts 

Overview
Whipple through truss bridge over Zumbro River on Chicago Great Western Railway
Location
Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota
Status
Destroyed by flooding & replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1883; Replaced 1908
Railroad
- Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW)
Design
Whipple through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+44.01995, -92.46155   (decimal degrees)
44°01'12" N, 92°27'42" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/543155/4874229 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Rochester
Inventory number
BH 52701 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,567)
Built 1883 (158)
Built during 1880s (1,994)
Chicago Great Western Railway (197)
Destroyed by flood (468)
Lost (24,744)
Lost 1908 (47)
Lost during 1900s (315)
Minnesota (1,521)
Olmsted County, Minnesota (37)
 Owned by railroad (12,424)
Railroad (15,426)
Rochester, Minnesota (13)
Skewed (4,906)
Through truss (15,070)
Truss (32,794)
Vertical endposts (69)
Whipple truss (387)
Zumbro River (24)

Update Log 

  • August 24, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Changed from a Pratt to a Whipple truss.
  • November 11, 2012: New photos from Luke Harden
  • June 22, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Skewed", "Chicago Great Western Railway"

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