Bridge Street Muskingum River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Muskingum River on Bridge Street between Philo and Duncan Falls
- Location
- Philo, Muskingum County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Future prospects
- Demolished in December 2020
- History
- Built 1953; rehabilitated 1979
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Wander & Mason
- Design
- Five-span Parker through truss w fixed swing
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 154.9 ft.
Total length: 828.1 ft.
Deck width: 25.9 ft.
- Also called
- Duncan Falls Bridge
Cry Baby Bridge
Philo Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.86917, -81.90933 (decimal degrees)
39°52'09" N, 81°54'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/422231/4413632 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Philo
- Elevation
- 679 ft. above sea level
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 797
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 6054129 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 37143 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of November 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 12.9 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- December 15, 2020: Updated by Brandon Cooper: Bridge has been replaced and blown up.
- August 22, 2020: New photos from Jeff Shroyer
- October 25, 2018: Photo imported by Brandon Cooper
- November 25, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- August 19, 2016: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge is now doomed.
- July 18, 2016: Photo imported by Dave King
- November 21, 2015: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- October 1, 2015: New Street View added by Brandon Cooper
- October 19, 2010: New photo from Eric Root
- July 16, 2010: New Street View added by James Baughn
- February 27, 2010: Updated by Greg Hall: added GPS coordinates
- August 11, 2008: Added by Greg Hall
Related Bridges
- Philo-Duncan Falls Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- Greg Hall - cyclebay [at] aol [dot] com
- Eric Root - ejort [at] att [dot] net
- Douglas Butler
- Brandon Cooper
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Nathan Holth
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Jeff Shroyer - shroyer100 [at] aol [dot] com
Comments
The causeway for the new bridge at Duncan Falls. Amazing to have a 775’ 5 span 40 panel riveted Parker truss still carrying traffic at a major river crossing in 2020. It looks to me like the river piers are the same ones as used for the Smith Type 4 truss built back in the 1870’s.
Replacement is being built, with girders and piers already in place.
Some more information on the bridge and its eventual replacement: https://ycitynews.com/2264/news/philo-duncan-falls-bridge-to...
This bridge is nearing the end of its lifespan. Seen a bunch of construction equipment on both sides of the river, including a big crane. Start looking into changing the status pretty soon, maybe end of the year to sometime in spring 2019.
There is discussion about raising money to replace this bridge.
They are letting a lot of these bridges rust so they can deteriorate even faster and be replaced by a concrete slab. Then they can put their name to the replacement bridge they built. This happened with the Putnam Street Bridge in Marietta. They didn't paint it and then it rusted so then they could say it needs replaced.
"A fresh coat of paint would spruce this one up good"... This bridge resembles the one at Waterville up in Lucas county which is kept up better.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/muskingum/bh37143/
Hey... There's a Jeff Shroyer sighting on Bridgehunter!
Welcome my friend!!