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BNSF - Platte River Bridge (Ashland)
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BNSF Platte River Bridge (Ashland)
East End
Photo taken by John Marvig in February 2017
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BH Photo #380976
Description
Built as a 28 span deck girder in 1901 (using 1899 spans), shifted onto new piers in 1915, with several spans being replaced
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Platte River on BNSF Railway
- Location
- Saunders County, Nebraska, and Sarpy County, Nebraska
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1899, Rebuilt 1915
- Builder
- - Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 105.0 ft.
Total length: 1,390.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.06161, -96.32574 (decimal degrees)
41°03'42" N, 96°19'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/724710/4549042 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ashland East
- Inventory number
- BH 75836 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 1, 2017: New photos from John Marvig
- February 28, 2017: Added by John Marvig