HZGX - Platte River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Platte River on Herzog Contracting Corporation
- Location
- Buchanan County, Missouri
- Status
- Used as a storage track
- Railroads
- - Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
- Herzog Contracting Corporation (HZGX)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Also called
- CB&Q - Platte River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.72524, -94.70577 (decimal degrees)
39°43'31" N, 94°42'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/353810/4398653 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Agency
- Inventory number
- BH 70139 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 1, 2021: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- December 4, 2015: Updated by Luke: Updated status per forum comment
- November 26, 2015: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- Luke
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
....aaah yes indeed, thanks
Nick, those piers belong to http://bridgehunter.com/mo/buchanan/bh86815/
Parked at Saxton Fishing Area Access lot, walked north on path along Platte River to this one....no plaques, at least on west end...pretty spot, evidence of another bridge from long ago with stone abutments just to north
My mistake, you're right.
The RI bridge was to the north of this one.
This appears to have been a branch of the Rock Island RR that ran to St. Joe from the main line at Altamont.
This bridge has recently been rehabbed (ca. 2006) for use and owned by the Herzog corporation to store track testing equipment on the east side of the Platte river along with temporary storage of coal cars waiting to be rehabbed at a facility west of the river. I used to jump off this bridge in my teens 1996-98 at which time the tracks ended on the east side of the approach.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/buchanan/bh70139/
I’m also seeing two distinctly different trusses. It’s possible at least one isn’t in an original location, or the bridge was upgraded at some point. Nice work!