DODX - Devils Elbow Bridge
Photos
View from overlook
Old Old US 66 (Teardrop Road) features an overlook of this bridge just west of Devil's Elbow
Photo taken by James Baughn
BH Photo #106893
Facts
- Overview
- Two-span through truss bridge over Big Piney River on the US Army Railroad near Devils Elbow
- Location
- Devils Elbow, Pulaski County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to railroad traffic
- History
- Built 1941 as part of a railroad spur to Fort Leonard Wood
- Builder
- - King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio (Based off of similarly designed bridges)
- Railroad
- - US Military Transportation Corps (DODX; USAX; USNX; DAFX)
- Design
- Pair of 6-panel, steel Baltimore through trusses, with wooden trestle approaches
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 1,700.0 ft.
- Also called
- USAX - Devils Elbow Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.84228, -92.06717 (decimal degrees)
37°50'32" N, 92°04'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/582076/4188725 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Devils Elbow
- Land survey
- T. 36 N., R. 10 W., Sec. 18
- Inventory number
- BH 22369 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 7, 2019: New photo from Mike Daffron
- August 14, 2018: New photo from James Baughn
- February 27, 2014: New photo from Jack Schmidt
- December 12, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Changed city to "Devils Elbow, MO"
- February 17, 2012: New photo from Larry Dooley
- August 19, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
- May 1, 2011: New photos from James McCray
- April 13, 2009: New photo from Nathan Morton
- December 13, 2008: New photos from Gene McCluney
- January 25, 2005: Posted new photos
Sources
- Gene McCluney - gmacfilm [at] live [dot] com
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Larry Dooley
- Luke
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
This bridge had the same portal bracing as a group of much older railroad Pratt trusses in southeast Kansas. It does not look like anything that I would expect on a 1940s bridge. It makes me wonder if this one was relocated.
Ain't I brilliant?
The Sign Says:
Goverment Property KEEP OFF
O.Erment is Goverment
Perhaps he used stimulus money.........
Who is O. Ernment and how did he make enough of a fortune to buy a railroad bridge?
The Army may paint the bridge but they don't replace their signs. Taken July 2nd 2009 while on a float trip
WHAT THE ....! A railroad bridge with paint on it? Don't know that I've ever seen one of those!!
Pictures from float trips on June 28 & July 2 2009
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/pulaski/piney-army/
This appears to use a King design, but also appears to be a Schaub variant truss as well:
https://archive.org/details/sim_enr_1904-03-24_51_12/page/29...
I'm hoping to be able to answer where these spans came from, as I assume they date to 1905 like the other bridges with this portal design.