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Pleasant Hill Bridge

Cass County, Missouri
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Photo taken by David Smothers

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Overview
Through truss bridge over Big Creek and inactive Rock Island railroad on MO 7
Location
Cass County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1948; rehabilitated 1984 and 2005
Builder
- Perry McGlone Construction Co.
Design
Riveted, 10-panel polygonal Warren through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 131.2 ft.
Total length: 480.8 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.2 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.77054, -94.27112   (decimal degrees)
38°46'14" N, 94°16'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/389575/4292080 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 46 N., R. 30 W., Sec. 29
USGS topographic map
Pleasant Hill
Inventory numbers
MoDOT L-23R (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 6041 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21185 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 11/2011)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 10.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
4,619

Categories 

10-panel truss (116)
Built 1948 (254)
Built during 1940s (2,798)
Cass County, Missouri (85)
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (335)
Have street view (9,906)
MO 7 (6)
Missouri (4,527)
Open (28,318)
Owned by state (9,810)
 Perry McGlone Construction Co. (1)
Polygonal Warren through truss (300)
Polygonal Warren truss (738)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,955)
Structurally deficient (16,683)
Through truss (9,211)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,371)
Truss (23,575)
Warren truss (3,961)

Update Log 

  • August 1, 2012: Updated by Max Johnson: Added to Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad catagory
  • June 24, 2011: New photos from David Backlin
  • October 3, 2008: Updated by David Smothers

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Pleasant Hill Bridge
Posted December 2, 2011, by David Smothers (davidsupreme [at] embarqmail [dot] com)

Here's another confusing thing for me. All three, Substructure, Superstructure, and Deck are rated 7 out of 9, but yet it still get a structurslly deficient total rating of 34 out of 100?