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UP - Osage City Bridge

Cole County, Missouri

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Photo taken by James Baughn

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Overview
Through truss bridge on the Union Pacific Railroad over Osage River at Osage City
Location
Cole County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic
Railroad
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
Design
From west to east:
One pony plate girder span
One riveted, 5-panel Pratt through truss with vertical endposts
Five pony plate girder spans
Also called
Osage City Railroad Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.55241, -92.02666   (decimal degrees)
38°33'09" N, 92°01'36" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/584812/4267558 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Osage City
Inventory number
BH 21328 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

5-panel truss (460)
Cole County, Missouri (33)
Girder (8,621)
Have diagram (35)
Have street view (24,052)
Missouri (6,043)
Movable (2,755)
Open (37,449)
Osage River (27)
Owned by railroad (10,481)
Plate girder (6,604)
 Pratt through truss (4,717)
Pratt truss (8,206)
Railroad (13,849)
Riveted (1,971)
Through girder (3,212)
Through truss (13,228)
Truss (29,967)
Union Pacific Railroad (2,075)
Vertical endposts (62)
Vertical lift (393)

Update Log 

  • July 31, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
  • July 2, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • July 10, 2005: Posted photo from Brian Frierdich

Sources 

  • Brian Frierdich - railtrekker [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Douglas Butler
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Osage City Railroad Bridge
Posted August 4, 2012, by Clark Vance (cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com)

Sme info on the bridge being built parallel to this one:

http://www.fra.dot.gov/rpd/freight/fp_Osage_River_Bridge_and...

Osage City Railroad Bridge
Posted January 12, 2012, by Jim BH Potts (jimpotts53 [at] gmail [dot] com)

OOPS! I have no info regarding the old MKT bridge and its re-use. The new bridge will be new steel. The two replacement spans of the old bridge are "approach" spans and are not shown on the sketch. I apologioze for any confusion.

Osage City Railroad Bridge
Posted January 10, 2012, by Jim BH Potts (jimpotts53 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Looks like the hikers lost. I'm looking at drawings of new bridge plus replacing two of the spans of the old bridge.

Osage City Railroad Bridge
Posted February 22, 2007, by Robert Brown (kansas57 [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge was once a through truss with a lift span to allow steamboats to pass on the Osage River. The plate girder decks replaced the through trusses in the 1990s (or thereabouts). I haven't been there for quite a while, but I read that the UP wanted to add a second parallel bridge to eliminate a bottleneck caused by two lines from each direction having to go down to one at the bridge. They wanted to use the steel from the old MKT bridge at Boonville, but a deal by one state agency to sell the state-owned bridge at Boonville to the UP has been blocked by another agency that wants to preserve the MKT bridge for use by the Katy Trail (hike-bike trail using the old MKT right-of-way that now detours over the US 40 bridge to reach Boonville).