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Old Blair Railroad Bridge

Washington County, Nebraska, and Harrison County, Iowa
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Photocopy From George S. Morison's The Blair Crossing Bridge, 1886. Photographer Unknown, Circa 1883. South Web And West Portal Of Bridge

Photo collected by Historic American Engineering Record

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Missouri River on Union Pacific Railroad
Location
Blair, Washington County, Nebraska, and Harrison County, Iowa
Status
Superstructure replaced
History
Built 1883; superstructure replaced 1923-24; spans relocated to cross Wind River in Wyoming
Builder
- George S. Morison of New Bedford, Massachusetts (Chief engineer)
Design
Main spans: Three Whipple through trusses
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 330.0 ft.
Also called
Blair Crossing Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.55107, -96.09434   (decimal degrees)
41°33'04" N, 96°05'40" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/742336/4604012 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Modale
Inventory number
BH 44450 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,851)
Blair, Nebraska (3)
Built 1883 (85)
Built during 1880s (1,055)
George S. Morison (18)
HAER documented (784)
Harrison County, Iowa (59)
Iowa (3,615)
Lost (10,495)
Lost 1924 (4)
Lost during 1920s (47)
Missouri River (95)
 Navigable waterway (1,453)
Nebraska (1,159)
Pin-connected (1,568)
Span length 250-500 feet (867)
State line crossing (515)
Superstructure replaced (18)
Through truss (9,254)
Truss (23,615)
Union Pacific Railroad (832)
Washington County, Nebraska (29)
Whipple truss (157)

Update Log 

  • March 14, 2010: Added by James Baughn

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