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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

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Power lines

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South end

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South pier

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South span

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Underneath

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Map

Vicinity map

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Facts

Overview: Cantilevered through truss bridge over the Missouri River on MO 47 at Washington
Status: Open to two-lane traffic
History: Built 1934
Design: Cantilevered through truss
Dimensions: 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.
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)
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

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

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Washington Bridge

Posted November 29, 2007, by Anonymous

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.

Washington Bridge

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

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.