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Waubonsie Bridge

Otoe County, Nebraska, and Fremont County, Iowa

Photos 

Overall View Of Bridge, Waubonsie Highway Bridge (1930), And Missouri River; View To Northeast

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

BH Photo #158035

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over Missouri River on NE 2
Location
Nebraska City, Otoe County, Nebraska, and Fremont County, Iowa
Status
Highway bridge replaced by new bridge
History
Built 1930; replaced 1983
Builder
- Kansas City Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
Design
Cantilevered Warren through truss
Also called
Waubonsie Highway Bridge
Nebraska City Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.67038, -95.83059   (decimal degrees)
40°40'13" N, 95°49'50" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/260745/4506020 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Nebraska City
Inventory number
BH 36927 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1930 (1,749)
Built during 1930s (11,773)
Cantilevered (306)
Cantilevered truss (250)
Fremont County, Iowa (29)
IA 2 (7)
Iowa (6,530)
Kansas City Bridge Co. (137)
Lost (25,007)
Lost 1983 (108)
Lost during 1980s (1,398)
Missouri River (119)
 NE 2 (1)
Navigable waterway (2,154)
Nebraska (1,636)
Nebraska City, Nebraska (10)
Otoe County, Nebraska (55)
Owned by state (16,055)
Replaced by new bridge (16,797)
State line crossing (855)
Through truss (15,198)
Truss (32,984)
Warren through truss (1,617)
Warren truss (6,583)

Update Log 

  • October 30, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Changed name to common name & added city
  • July 23, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey

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Comments 

Waubonsie Bridge
Posted January 31, 2016, by Matt

I think this bridge was still in use as late as 1985 or 86; I remember crossing it on a trip from Lincoln, Nebraska to St. Louis, Missouri during a vacation in this period. We did the drive in reverse a year or so later and by then the new one had opened.

Nebraska City Bridge
Posted August 21, 2008, by Randy Brush

Thank you for show photo of railroad bridge over Missouri River. It is two truss bridges like in 1888. It is make George S Morison. I remember four truss bridge over Missouri River in Sioux City, Iowa. It was built in 1888. It was lost since 1973. i have no time take picture at Sioux City, Iowa. it was too late.

THANK YOU.

Nebraska City Bridge
Posted July 24, 2008, by Todd (hippiewalk [at] yahoo [dot] com)

The highway span looks simular to the recently demolished Hermann Bridge. I wonder if this bridge was designed and built by the same company as the Hermann span. PLUS I am sure a UCEB or a steel stringer span exists there today. Is the old railroad bridge still standing?