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Overview These photos, taken July 2005 by Bob Estes, show the bridge when it was still in use. |
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Destruction Bob Estes returned in Spring 2006 to discover that the bridge had been destroyed after somebody tried to drag an old caracross without wheels or tires. |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost pony truss bridge over Silver Creek on CR 1651
- Location
- Cedar County, Missouri
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built ca. 1908 by the Canton Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Canton Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Half-hip Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 46.9 ft.
Total length: 64.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.1 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.76001, -93.76946 (decimal degrees)
37°45'36" N, 93°46'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/432223/4179466 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 35 N., R. 26 W., Sec. 35
- USGS topographic map
- Caplinger Mills
- Inventory numbers
- MO 020-202000.2 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 18852 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21211 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 02/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 20.9 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
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Sources
- Bob Estes - bestes2000 [at] qwest [dot] net
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory