Washington Bridge
Photos
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Overview from riverfront |
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Close-up of one span |
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South portal |
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County line |
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Driving under a tower |
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Behind north portal |
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North portal from a distance |
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South Portal at a Distance Picture of the South Portal at a distance. Photo taken by David B. Haun |
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South Guardrailing end Guardrails on the south end of the Washington Bridge. Photo taken by David B. Haun |
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Overview Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2008 |
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Pier Photo taken by James Baughn |
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Power lines Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2008 |
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South end Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2008 |
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South pier Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2008 |
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South span Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2008 |
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Underneath Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2008 |
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Looking Downriver from Washington Boat Launch Taken 5/12/2009 Photo taken by Joe Virruso |
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered through truss bridge over the Missouri River on MO 47 at Washington
- Status
- Open to two-lane traffic
- History
- Construction started Oct. 1934; opened to traffic April 8, 1936
- Builders
- - Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas (Substructure)
- Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri (Superstructure)
- Sverdrup & Parcel (Design)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 474.6 ft.
Total length: 2,561.3 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.6 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.55774, -90.99790 (decimal degrees)
38°33'28" N, 90°59'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/674447/4269600 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 44 N., R. 1 W., Sec. 23
- USGS topographic map
- Washington East
- Inventory numbers
- MONBI 6026 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
MoDOT K-969 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
BH 21510 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 08/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 5.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 11,714
Update Log
- May 13, 2009: New photo from Joe Virruso
- July 21, 2008: New photos from James Baughn
- May 30, 2008: New photos from David B. Haun
- April 30, 2005: Posted new photos
Sources
- David B. Haun - dbhaun [at] gmail [dot] com
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Joe Virruso - virrusofamily [at] att [dot] net
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
Comments
Work has started to rehabilitate this bridge and make repairs to the superstructure.
During the rehabilitation of this bridge, in the late 90's, there is a story of a man trying to manuever his way from one scaffold to another and ended up falling, boots first, several ft. to the river below. He survived. Mind you this happened at around 10:00pm in November.
Love this site.
The bridges over the Missouri at Washington, Hermann, and Boonville (lost) and the lost bridges over the Mississippi at Hannibal and Cape Girardeau were all designed by the engineering department under the direction of Leif Sverdrup at the Mo Dept of Highways and Transportation (now DOT). Sverdrup went onto lead the Army engineers under MacArthur in the Pacific in WW II and came home and started an engineering and construction company in St Louis that is still in business.