Nebraska City Railroad Bridge

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 

• View #1

Facts 

Overview

Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Missouri River

Location

Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska, and Fremont County, Iowa

Status

Removed

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)

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 

Update Log 

• 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

Sources 

• HAER NE-2 - Nebraska City Bridge
• James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
• The Nebraska City Bridge : a report to Charles E. Perkins, president, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company : Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - 25 p., 20 leaves of plates : 35 x 55 cm

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