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Illinois Terminal - Tucker Tunnel

St. Louis, Missouri

Photo 

View of old tunnel from the construction site as seen from the Post-Dispatch building.

Photo taken by Nathan Morton in March 2011

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BH Photo #195045

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Cut-And-Cover Tunnel under Tucker Blvd. on Illinois Terminal Railroad tunnel on in St. Louis
Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Status
Filled in. Tunnel has been filled in with new roadway built on top.
Future prospects
Tunnel has been filled in.
History
Built in 1931; demolished in 2010
Railroads
- Illinois Terminal Railroad (IT; ITC)
- Illinois Traction System (ITS)
- Interurban
Design
Tunnel
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 32.2 ft.
Total length: 2,687.1 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 74.2 ft.
Also called
Tucker Boulevard Bridge
Illinois Terminal Railroad Transfer Tunnel
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.63343, -90.19597   (decimal degrees)
38°38'00" N, 90°11'45" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/744075/4279830 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Granite City
Land survey
T. 45 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 14
Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
20,000
Inventory numbers
MONBI 12953 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 42565 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of April 2009)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 18.3 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Built 1931 (932)
Built during 1930s (11,750)
Cut-And-Cover Tunnel (40)
Filled in (75)
Illinois Terminal Railroad (48)
Illinois Traction System (36)
Interurban (911)
Lost (24,769)
Lost 2010 (464)
 Lost during 2010s (3,286)
Missouri (6,306)
Owned by city (5,404)
Railroad (15,439)
Span length 25-50 feet (15,674)
St. Louis, Missouri (151)
Total length over 2500 feet (916)
Tunnel (1,310)

Update Log 

  • March 9, 2011: New photo from Nathan Morton
  • May 13, 2009: Added by David Backlin

Sources 

  • David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
  • Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Comments 

Tucker Boulevard Bridge
Posted February 13, 2011, by Kim Harvey

It was used by the Illinois Terminal Railroad because their headquarters was in that area.

http://irrationalecstasy.blogspot.com/2006/01/illinois-termi...

Tucker Boulevard Bridge
Posted February 12, 2011, by Mark Dellbringge

Do any historians out there know what purpose this tunnel served? The only thing I can think of is that trains used the Iron Horse Trestle to get access, and deliver rolls of newsprint to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the former St. Louis Globe-Democrat newspaper (folded in October 1986, now on-line only). And then prior to the bridge demolition...that's when the homeless people (living underneath) got chased out.