Rating:
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Carroll County Road 314 Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over the BNSF Railway on CR 314
- Location
- Carroll County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1895 by the Edge Moor Bridge Works; later relocated here
- Builder
- - Edgemoor Bridge Works of Wilmington, Delaware
- Railroad
- - Rail-to-road
- Design
- Wrought iron, pin-connected, 9-panel Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 160.0 ft.
Total length: 162.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.3 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.42878, -93.37969 (decimal degrees)
39°25'44" N, 93°22'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/467321/4364429 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Standish
- Land survey
- T. 53 N., R. 22 W., Sec. 9
- Inventory numbers
- MO 017-407000.1 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 23380 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21133 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 01/2016)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 77.6 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 25
Update Log
- October 16, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
- May 19, 2011: New Street View added by Sheldon Wiens
- October 5, 2009: New photos from James Baughn
Sources
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Sheldon Wiens
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Carroll County Road 314 Bridge
Yes. Another clue is the "crash bar" which is the diagonal member halfway up the end post.
I am attaching the Historic Bridge Inventory sheet which has some basic info.
Carroll County Road 314 Bridge
Bridge looks like it may have originally carried a railroad, now carrying a road. Narrowness and the portal bracing seem to hint at this.
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/carroll/cr314/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/carroll/cr314/
It may be a case where double tracking led to it being moved from just to the SW over Big creek.