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DM&E Cottonwood River Bridge

Redwood County, Minnesota
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Overview
Quadrangular truss bridge with trestle and deck plate girder approaches
Location
Lamberton, Redwood County, Minnesota
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1919 by Chicago Northwestern
Design
Quadrangular Warren (Deck Plate Girder Triangular Lattic Through Truss) through truss bridge with A-frame portal bracing and a 30° skew. Approaches are trestle with 2 deck plate girder spans
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 140.0 ft.
Total length: 746.0 ft.
Skew angle
30 degrees
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+44.23166, -95.21401   (decimal degrees)
44°13'54" N, 95°12'50" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/323184/4899986 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Sanborn
Inventory number
BH 49709 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (6,154)
Built 1919 (349)
Built during 1910s (6,760)
Canadian Pacific Railway (241)
Chicago & North Western Railway (492)
Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad (181)
Deck girder (1,830)
Girder (3,286)
Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad (133)
Lamberton, Minnesota (4)
Lattice through truss (201)
Lattice truss (269)
Minnesota (948)
 NR-eligible (3,750)
Open (28,452)
Owned by railroad (4,119)
Plate girder (2,284)
Quadrangular lattice through truss (80)
Railroad (4,220)
Redwood County, Minnesota (26)
Skewed (4,083)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,966)
Through truss (9,250)
Timber stringer (1,893)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,819)
Truss (23,609)

Update Log 

  • September 22, 2011: New photo from Luke Harden
  • September 22, 2011: Added by Jason Smith

Sources 

  • Jason Smith - JDSmith77 [at] gmx [dot] net
  • Luke Harden - lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com
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D, M, & E Cottonwood Crossing at Lamberton
Posted October 24, 2011, by John Marvig (johnmarvig [at] chaska [dot] net)

this bridge is near impossible to access. I have gotten to it, but the water was too high to take pictures of it