Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over East Fork Medicine Creek on Route PP
- Location
- Sullivan County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1955
- Design
- Riveted, 7-panel Parker pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 127.9 ft.
Total length: 254.8 ft.
Deck width: 14.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.19833, -93.34167 (decimal degrees)
40°11'54" N, 93°20'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Land survey
- T. 62 N., R. 22 W., Sec. 2
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT P-956 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 7999 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22720 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 11/2005)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 34.3 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
- 190
Comments
Medicine Creek Route PP Bridge
Photos of the bridge.
Medicine Creek Route PP Bridge
This is one interesting bridge. It was always posted one lane traffic since at least the mid-1960s. If I remember correctly, it had a wooden deck as late as about 1970. It makes for one tough stretch of highway: going westbound, it is just a handful of yards after crossing the bridge before crossing the railroad track, then another short hop to MO 139 at Osgood. I spent my childhood about 7 miles northeast of that bridge, which we used frequently at the time as a shortcut to Trenton. I'll see about getting photos of this bridge in the near future.