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Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (second bridge)

Chariton County, Missouri, and Carroll County, Missouri

Photos 

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499

Postcard of the second bridge at this location

Photographer unknown

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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BH Photo #309717

Map 

Video 

Mitch Adams via Facebook

Facts 

Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Grand River on Wabash, later N&W, now NS Railway
Location
Chariton County, Missouri, and Carroll County, Missouri
Status
Destroyed as of 10/1/2019 by flooding
History
Original bridge at this location built 1868; rebuilt 1889 with four TT spans; rebuilt 1913 with this DPG bridge; lost 10-1-2019 account of destruction by drift pileup
Builder
- American Bridge Co. of New York
Railroads
- Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
Design
8-span deck plate girder bridge, with DPG spans for approach bridges on either side
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 75.0 ft.
Total length: 1,111.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.3 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.42768, -93.15880   (decimal degrees)
39°25'40" N, 93°09'32" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/486332/4364250 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Brunswick West
Inventory number
BH 64630 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (1,661)
Built 1913 (903)
Built during 1910s (9,975)
Carroll County, Missouri (88)
Chariton County, Missouri (121)
Deck girder (6,307)
Destroyed by flood (614)
Girder (11,178)
Lost (28,561)
Lost 2019 (160)
 Lost during 2010s (3,604)
Missouri (6,563)
Norfolk & Western Railway (638)
Norfolk Southern Railway (2,095)
Owned by railroad (13,506)
Plate girder (8,732)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,656)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,998)
Wabash Railroad (593)

Update Log 

  • September 6, 2021: New photos from Eric Kinkhorst
  • July 6, 2020: New photos from Eric Kinkhorst
  • October 29, 2019: Updated by Eric Kinkhorst: Bridge has been replaced
  • October 2, 2019: New video from James Holzmeier
  • December 12, 2014: Added by James Holzmeier

Sources 

  • James Holzmeier - wabashry [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Eric Kinkhorst - erick [dot] bud [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comments 

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (second bridge)
Posted July 6, 2020, by John Marvig (marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Looks like there is at least a couple secondhand spans in the rebuild of this bridge.

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (second bridge)
Posted October 28, 2019, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

The amount of debris in that video is staggering!

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (second bridge)
Posted October 28, 2019, by Eric Kinkhorst (erick [dot] bud [at] gmail [dot] com)

The bridge has been replaced and the trains are running again.

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (new bridge)
Posted October 2, 2019, by Melissa Brand-Welch (melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com)

Clark, thank you. The video was Amazing.

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (new bridge)
Posted October 2, 2019, by Clark Vance (cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com)

https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/giant-logjam-demolishe...

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (new bridge)
Posted October 1, 2019, by Eric Kinkhorst (erick [dot] bud [at] gmail [dot] com)

I'm surprised it lasted this long.

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (new bridge)
Posted October 1, 2019, by Kelly McClanahan

Reports are saying that bridge was washed out and collapsed due too flooding, only one report as now -- https://www.kmzu.com/railroad-bridge-near-brunswick-collapse...

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (new bridge)
Posted October 1, 2019, by CHRISTOPHER J JONES (milkmanchris [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This bridge was lost due to flooding and backed-up debris on the Grand River.

https://www.facebook.com/mitch.adams.758/videos/142151768466...

Wabash Railroad Bridge #499 (new bridge)
Posted September 23, 2015, by Eric Kinkhorst (erick [dot] bud [at] gmail [dot] com)

I fish by this bridge all the time. You can see a plaque that says 1913 on one of the girders. Has withstood many floods.