KCS - 63rd Street Trestle
Description
Built in 1928 to connect KCS from Leeds Junction to Grandview, The 63rd Street bridge is one of KCS longest bridges in the area. At about 120 feet high above the ground there is, a slight grade to the from 873 feet (south end) to 853 feet (north end).Facts
- Overview
- Steel trestle over E. 63rd Street Trafficway on Kansas City Southern Railway
- Location
- Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to railroad traffic above and four lanes of traffic below
- History
- Built 1928
- Railroad
- - Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS)
- Design
- Steel deck plate girder trestle
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 75.0 ft.
Total length: 875.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- E. 63rd Street Trestle
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.01539, -94.51575 (decimal degrees)
39°00'55" N, 94°30'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/368774/4319576 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kansas City
- Land survey
- 48N-33W-1
- Elevation
- 850 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 44342 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 26, 2020: New photos from Clark Vance
- October 12, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
- April 28, 2014: Updated by Kelly McClanahan: Updated data
- January 5, 2014: New photos from Luke Harden
- August 10, 2012: Updated by Clark Vance: Added category "Railroad"
- November 15, 2010: New photos from Nathan Morton
- March 6, 2010: New photo from Joshua Collins
- March 6, 2010: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Luke
- Kelly McClanahan
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
Comments
Clark,
Do you know how much of this bridge is being replaced?
KCS appears to be replacing sections of the trestle. Photo's taken today by a friend.
When younger I wondered why this bridge is so plain compared to the KCS concrete arches built over Wildcat Hollow, Gregory, and of course US 50 (now Blue Parkway). The 1931 county road map gives the answer. There was no road passing under this bridge when it was built. Swope Parkway was the eastern end of 63rd St when this bridge went up over an essentially empty valley.
Here are some more photos I took on January 4, 2013.
Awesome!!! There are 3 more KCS bridges in the KC/Grandview area that you could photograph: 1) the concrete overpass just to the west of E. Stadium Rd, 2) the concrete/steel deck girder bridge that crosses over I-435 outside of Grandview, and 3) the steel thru-plate girder bridge in Grandview that crosses a street and rr tracks. This one used to be silver/brown or black; now, it has been repainted. I am not sure whether the western-most span crosses a side access road or rr tracks. It is difficult to see due to foliage.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/jackson/bh44342/
One piece is up and one staged below. Next time I pass I'll see if there's someone who knows. Just a clean-up guy on an excavator when I visited yesterday.