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Wabash Railroad Bridge #1940

Macon County, Missouri

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Wabash Railroad Bridge #1940

This view shows the height extension on the south abutment, to clear excess-height train cars on the BNSF line under this bridge.

Photo taken by James Holzmeier ca. 1998

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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BH Photo #308307

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Facts 

Overview
Abandoned pony/through girder bridge over BNSF Railway on Wabash, later N&W, later NS Railway
Location
Macon, Macon County, Missouri
Status
Derelict/abandoned
History
Built 1905
Builder
- King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
Railroads
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
Design
Pony/through girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 45.5 ft.
Total length: 48.1 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.73752, -92.47709   (decimal degrees)
39°44'15" N, 92°28'38" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/544805/4398755 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Macon
Inventory number
BH 63818 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1905 (741)
Built during 1900s (6,452)
Closed (2,481)
Girder (8,484)
King Bridge Co. (296)
Macon County, Missouri (79)
Macon, Missouri (5)
Missouri (6,027)
 Norfolk Southern Railway (1,475)
Preserved (1,089)
Railroad (13,566)
Span length 25-50 feet (13,979)
Through girder (3,110)
Total length 25-50 feet (10,126)
Wabash Railroad (546)

Update Log 

  • December 8, 2014: New photo from James Holzmeier
  • November 27, 2014: New photos from James Holzmeier
  • November 15, 2014: New photos from James Holzmeier
  • October 25, 2014: Updated by James Holzmeier: Added categories "Wabash Railroad Co.", "Wabash Railroad", "Railroad"

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