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CORP - Cow Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Cow Creek on Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad (CORP)
- Location
- Douglas County, Oregon
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1905
- Railroads
- - Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad (CORP)
- Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W)
- Southern Pacific Railroad (SP)
- Design
- The Cow Creek Bridge in a pin-connected Pratt through truss built in 1905. This was a common type of bridge built by the railroads around the turn of the 20th century. The pin-connected technology is considered obsolete by modern standards but many pin-connected trusses still serve the railroads today.
- Dimensions
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Span length: 175.0 ft.
Total length: 175.0 ft.
Deck width: 12.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.81111, -123.59534 (decimal degrees)
42°48'40" N, 123°35'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/451326/4740011 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Rabbit Mountain
- Inventory number
- BH 46824 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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