Embarrass River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren with all verticals pony truss bridge over Embarrass River on CR 796
- Location
- St. Louis County, Minnesota
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1919, replaced 2016
- Design
- Warren pony truss with all verticals
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 78.4 ft.
Total length: 83.7 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +47.68194, -92.09722 (decimal degrees)
47°40'55" N, 92°05'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/567755/5281345 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Isaac Lake
- Average daily traffic (as of 2003)
- 5
- Inventory numbers
- MN 88773 (Minnesota bridge number)
BH 20613 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2016)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 23.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- September 4, 2018: Updated by Matt Lohry: This bridge has been replaced.
- August 31, 2015: New photos from Matt Lohry
Comments
According to the St. Louis County engineer, this bridge has been removed and a replacement is being constructed. We will be in the area in September for other bridge inspections and will verify the status of this one.
Another deserving recipient of the infamous filthy toilet award; nice work, Tony! I swear, St. Louis County probably has "truss bridges suck" stenciled across the front of their wrecking ball. There is still one truss bridge (a Pratt through truss) left outside of Duluth that is still in service, and it's only a few miles from my childhood home (where my folks still live). Since it's in this county, I don't expect that it will be around for too much longer, however...
On the bright side, it helps create an entire area I don't have to ever bother visiting. I can drive straight from Duluth to Thunder Bay and not miss anything. Saves on time. Too bad the county can't just demolish itself from the space-time continuum then I could save even more time.
On a more serious note, being as this website doesn't do Canada, I should give you folks the heads up if you ever do make the ridiculously long drive to see the magnificent Duluth Lift Bridge (and other Duluth bridges), you might as well continue on up to Thunder Bay, which has three extremely unusual movable bridges. A Strauss bascule, Scherzer bascule, and swing. All three were originally built as RR/HWY combos, two/three continue to function in this way.
Well Matt, at 5 ADT I figure that new ugly will pay for itself in about... NEVER!
Here... I think you might need this...
Todd Baslee photo
Kudos to St. Louis County, the most truss bridge-hating county in the state, this is the last remaining pony truss bridge in service in the county and it is currently being replaced!
Joe, you reminded me that I had pics to post; thanks!
Inspected this bridge on 8/26/2015. It has some serious structural issues, with significant section loss on lower chords and floorbeams. The county is reducing the posting from 10/12/12 tons to 3 tons.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mn/st-louis/88773/
This bridge has been replaced by a single-span steel girder bridge with timber deck and rails and a bituminous overlay (Bridge No. 69A58).