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BN - Nebraska City Railroad Bridge

Otoe County, Nebraska, and Fremont County, Iowa

Photos 

Overall View Of Bridge And Missouri River; View To Northwest

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

BH Photo #118094

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Missouri River
Location
Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska, and Fremont County, Iowa
Status
Line abandoned in 1982; Removed in 1984
History
Built 1888 under the direction of George S. Morison
Builders
- A.J. Himes (Assistant engineer)
- Addison Conner (Assistant engineer)
- Baird Brothers of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Erection)
- Benjamin L. Crosby of St. Louis, Missouri (Resident engineer)
- E.L. Corthell (Associate chief engineer)
- Edwin Duryea (Resident engineer)
- George S. Morison of New Bedford, Massachusetts (Chief engineer)
- L.V. Rice (Assistant engineer)
- Mark Waldo (Assistant engineer)
- T. Saulpaugh & Co (Substructure)
- Union Bridge Co. of Buffalo, New York & Athens, Pennsylvania (Superstructure)
- W.S. MacDonald (Assistant engineer)
Railroads
- Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
Design
Main spans: Two Whipple through trusses
Approach: One Whipple deck truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.67025, -95.83070   (decimal degrees)
40°40'13" N, 95°49'51" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/260736/4506006 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Nebraska City
Inventory number
BH 44441 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,969)
A.J. Himes (1)
Addison Conner (1)
Baird Brothers (2)
Benjamin L. Crosby (4)
Built 1888 (229)
Built during 1880s (2,080)
Burlington Northern Railroad (489)
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (557)
Deck truss (1,849)
E.L. Corthell (4)
Edwin Duryea (1)
Fremont County, Iowa (31)
George S. Morison (35)
HAER documented (1,109)
Have street view (27,855)
Iowa (6,699)
L.V. Rice (1)
 Lost (26,876)
Lost 1984 (120)
Lost during 1980s (1,463)
Mark Waldo (2)
Missouri River (123)
Navigable waterway (2,185)
Nebraska (1,673)
Nebraska City, Nebraska (10)
Otoe County, Nebraska (55)
Railroad (16,170)
State line crossing (886)
T. Saulpaugh & Co (1)
Through truss (15,968)
Truss (34,257)
Union Bridge Co. (63)
W.S. MacDonald (1)
Whipple deck truss (26)
Whipple truss (434)

Update Log 

  • January 15, 2020: Updated by Geoff Hubbs: Added abandonment & removal dates
  • August 11, 2011: New Street View added by James McCray
  • August 3, 2011: New photos from James McCray
  • March 14, 2010: Added by James Baughn

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Nebraska City Railroad Bridge
Posted October 1, 2019, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Newly digitized bridge historical bridge report containing numerous original drawings of this bridge: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125016395689/page/n6