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First Glasgow Railroad Bridge
Photos
HABS photo
This photo collected by the Historic American Buildings Survey shows the first bridge ca. 1880
Photo posted by James Baughn
BH Photo #105483
Description
According to the sign posted at the current location this original bridge was the first all steel bridge in the world. Built at a cost of $500,000.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Missouri River on Chicago & Alton Railroad
- Location
- Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri, and Saline County, Missouri
- Status
- Superstructure replaced
- History
- Built 1878-79 by Gen. William Sooy Smith; superstructure replaced in 1900
- Builder
- - William Sooysmith & Son of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroad
- - Chicago & Alton Railroad (C&A)
- Design
- Five Whipple through trusses. Described as world's first major all-steel bridge.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.22300, -92.84972 (decimal degrees)
39°13'23" N, 92°50'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/512971/4341533 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Glasgow
- Inventory number
- BH 44724 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 20, 2019: New photo from Rusty Weisman
- June 25, 2017: Updated by John Marvig: Added category "railroad"
- September 11, 2015: New photo from Steve Conro
- April 3, 2010: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- HABS MO-1465 - Chicago & Alton Railway Bridge
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Rusty Weisman