Branch Sandy Creek Bridge
Photos
Branch Sandy Creek Bridge
Photo taken by Chris Gonnerman in April 2013
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
BH Photo #252209
Facts
- Overview
- Bedstead pony truss bridge over a branch of Sandy Creek on Calamint Trail (CR 165)
- Location
- Putnam County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca. 1925
- Builder
- - Pan American Bridge Co. of Moberly, Missouri
- Design
- Double-intersection warren bedstead pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 39.0 ft.
Total length: 40.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.50592, -92.85892 (decimal degrees)
40°30'21" N, 92°51'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/511953/4483921 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Omaha
- Land survey
- T. 66 N., R. 18 W., Sec. 24
- Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
- 5
- Inventory numbers
- MO 086-165000.9 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 17859 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22382 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of March 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Excellent (9 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 22 (out of 100)
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Related Bridges
- Geneva Creek Bridge (Same design)
Comments
In addition to the Shelby County Oak Dale spans, Putnam county seems to have a handful of these spans that match ones built by Pan American.
However, unlike the Shelby County spans, I can't seem to find proof of it in Putnam County.
Nearly all of the Bedsteads I have seen that are still in use have had their legs encased in concrete. I'm sure the county officials found this as a cheap and easy way to deal with deficiencies that often occurred with them.
As Luke said, it is a double intersecting warren. "Double intersecting" means there are two warren patterns with overlayed with the second offset one-half the distance of the of the pattern repeat of the first.
But are you sure it's a bedstead? Clearly it has vertical end posts, but to be called a beadstead the endposts have to extend below the lower chord and function as substructure. I can't tell from the photos where the lower end of the endpost is...
This would be a double-intersection Warren.
Can anyone tell me what type of bridge this is? Putnam County, Missouri has several of this type. I can see that it is a bedstead truss; however, the descriptive text for these bridges (which are obviously all related) varies between "Bedstead double-intersection Warren" and "Lattice bedstead" types. It looks like a lattice to me, but I'd like confirmation before I go around changing them.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/putnam/17859/
Anyone else think there's a link between this design and Pan American of Moberly?
According to Tony, the PanAm of Newcastle never built these, and the only other listed builder of one of these bridges I can find is 5 examples allegedly built by Stupp Bros.
Another bit of evidence supporting this link in an excerpt from the MO HB Inventory from FraserDesign