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BNSF - Platte River Bridge
Photos
Platte River Railroad Bridge
The bridge, with the Platte River MO 45 Bridge along side of it
BH Photo #113849
Facts
- Overview
- Baltimore through truss bridge over Platte River on BNSF Railroad
- Location
- Platte County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1920; Truss added 1951
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroads
- - BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
- Design
- Baltimore through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.0 ft.
Total length: 490.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.27357, -94.82715 (decimal degrees)
39°16'25" N, 94°49'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/342389/4348726 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Platte City
- Inventory number
- BH 36500 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 11, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
- September 5, 2016: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- February 5, 2016: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- December 22, 2012: New photos from Clark Vance
- December 21, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added approaches.
- August 31, 2011: New photos from Jason Smith
- April 15, 2009: Updated by Gene McCluney: added railroad
- April 29, 2008: Added by Max Johnson
Sources
- Gene McCluney - gmacfilm [at] live [dot] com
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Luke
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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I received imagery from 1945 of the bridge washed out (similar to the photos in the comments). A temporary bridge was built between Highway 45 and this bridge. I wonder if the truss may be older than 1951? If so, how much older?