Waubonsie Bridge
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
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)
Update Log
- May 6, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- April 24, 2021: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- October 30, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Changed name to common name & added city
- July 23, 2008: Added by Kim Harvey
Sources
- Kim Harvey
- HAER NE-2 - Nebraska City Bridge
- Wikipedia
- Luke
- Geoff Hubbs
Comments
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.
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?
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ne/otoe/nebraska-city/
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.