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Wabash Bridge

St. Charles County, Missouri, and St. Louis County, Missouri
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Side view from a distance

In the background is the Discovery Bridge

Photo taken by James Baughn

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Overview
Cantilevered through truss bridge over the Missouri River on the Norfolk Southern Railroad, between St. Charles and Bridgeton, Mo.
Location
St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri, and St. Louis County, Missouri
Status
Open to railroad traffic
History
Built 1936, replacing an earlier 1871 through truss railroad bridge on a new alignment
Builders
- Modjeski, Masters and Case
- Wabash-St. Charles Bridge Co.
Design
Cantilevered Warren through truss
From: Souvenir of Inspection of New Wabash Bridge: Five main piers. Total length of the main spans is 1,645 feet, composed of one simple truss span 312 feet long, an east anchor arm of 429 feet, a main channel span of 624 feet, and a west anchor arm of 273 feet. The east approach is 3,945 feet long; the west approach is 2,86 feet, making a total length of bridge of 7,876 feet.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 624.0 ft.
Total length: 7,876.0 ft. (1.5 mi.)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.79805, -90.46837   (decimal degrees)
38°47'53" N, 90°28'06" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/719856/4297410 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 47 N., R. 5 E., Sec. 32
USGS topographic map
Saint Charles
Inventory number
BH 22582 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1936 (744)
Built during 1930s (8,548)
Cantilevered (241)
Cantilevered truss (221)
Have street view (9,880)
Missouri (4,521)
Missouri River (95)
Modjeski, Masters and Case (1)
Norfolk Southern Railway (453)
Open (28,295)
Over a mile long (192)
 Owned by railroad (4,034)
Span length 500-1000 feet (313)
St. Charles County, Missouri (44)
St. Charles, Missouri (7)
St. Louis County, Missouri (117)
Through truss (9,200)
Total length over 2500 feet (587)
Truss (23,559)
Wabash-St. Charles Bridge Co. (1)
Warren through truss (924)
Warren truss (3,955)

Update Log 

  • December 31, 2010: Updated by Mark Frazier: Construction notes added.
  • January 23, 2006: Posted new photos

Sources 

  • Mark Frazier - mfrazier [at] kc [dot] rr [dot] com
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Wabash Bridge
Posted December 29, 2007, by Bruce Bridges (railfan727 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This is now the Norfolk Southern Railroad. The Wabash name has not been used since Norfolk & Western took over in 1964, and N&W merged with Southern in 1982.

Wabash Bridge
Posted August 3, 2007, by Dylan

The 1871 St. Charles Railroad Bridge was located about 1/2 mile south of the current St. Charles Railroad Bridge. The alignment of the 1871 Bridge on the St. Charles side of the river was between Olive Street and French Street.