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Row River Trail - Row River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt pony truss bridge over Row River on Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railroad Trail
- Location
- Lane County, Oregon
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1950
- Railroad
- - Oregon, Pacific & Eastern Railroad (OP&E)
- Design
- Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 125.0 ft.
Total length: 260.0 ft.
Deck width: 10.0 ft.
- Also called
- OP&E - Row River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.79327, -122.99003 (decimal degrees)
43°47'36" N, 122°59'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/500801/4848912 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dorena Lake
- Inventory number
- BH 49801 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railway - Abandoned Railroads of the Pacific Northwest
- Wikipedia - Row River National Recreation Trail
- Row River National Recreation Trail - Bureau of Land Management
- Mike Garland - Rapier342 [at] comcast [dot] net
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It sure looks like it was intended to be lifted.
The three middle gusset plates may have been pre-punched and never had anything riveted to some of the holes.
It makes me think some shop was turning out prefab heavy bridges for railroad use.