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View from a distance

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View from northwest

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View from southwest

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View from northeast

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North portal

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South portal

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Standing on bridge

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Close-up of deck

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Behind north portal

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Middle joint

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Upper chord hip joint

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Underneath

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Close-up of underside

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North portal from side

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North approach

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North abutment

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Piers from below

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Lower joint

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Builder's plaque

1911
Built by
Stupp Bro's
Bridge & Iron
Company
St Louis Mo
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"Class B" marker

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"Lackawanna" steel imprint

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Diagram 

Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over St. Francis River downstream from Wappapello Dam on CR 517
Location
Wayne County, Missouri
Status
Demolished Spring 2008, replacement bridge under construction
Future prospects
Scheduled for replacement
History
Built 1911 by Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co.
Builder
- Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
Design
Pin-connected, 10-panel Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 209.9 ft.
Total length: 242.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.5 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Davis Camp Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+36.92824, -90.26486   (decimal degrees)
36°55'42" N, 90°15'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Land survey
T. 26 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 2
Inventory numbers
MO 111-069000.5 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 14495 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22814 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 01/2005)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 19.5 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
100

Categories 

10-panel truss (51)
Available (11)
Built 1911 (299)
Built during 1910s (3,620)
Have diagram (35)
Lost (752)
Missouri (2,393)
NR-eligible (2,572)
Owned by county (14,237)
Pennsylvania truss (118)
Pin-connected (473)
Replaced by new bridge (614)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,026)
St. Francis River (11)
Structurally deficient (10,822)
Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. (15)
Through truss (5,361)
Total length 175-250 feet (1,817)
Truss (15,978)
Tubular piers (17)
Wayne County, Missouri (36)
Wooden deck (5,161)

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Wappapello Bridge
Posted July 27, 2008, by chalres havens (bbigcnote [at] hotmail [dot] com)

this bridge has been torn down and is being replaced by a modern concrete girder bridge

Wappapello Bridge
Posted March 23, 2008, by Karen

Yes, the pictures on here are copyrighted.

However, I do belive the webmaster has some for sale at lulu.com, I think.

Wappapello Bridge
Posted February 4, 2008, by Jayne Allison (henrijay48 [at] aol [dot] com)

Are the pictures of the Wapppello Bridge copyrighted and who took them.