Clark Vance

It looks like there are fresh tracks leading into and out of the trees, so it may still be serving for farm use. Of course it could also be long gone and replaced by gravel and a culvert....

1967 topo shows RR as Penn Central and N-S as Norfolk and Western.

1958 topo shows RR as New York Central.

New York, Chicago, and St. Louis runs through town N-S.

I learned today that there is a discussion aimed toward moving this bridge to a park in Grandview in southern Jackson County. Although Jackson County has already lost almost all of its non-boundary trusses, the possibility exists for a bridge park as part of the greenway along the Little Blue corridor.

This appears to be a very unusual reuse of a truss. You gotta hand it to the railroads--they get the train across the river! I wonder what the story is on this one.

Looks like it's going to the scrapper and they don't care about damage.

Hard to tell from the pictures but this looks like someone cutting trees dropped one on the bridge. Any info on what happened, who is responsible, future prospects?

Great pictures Daniel. This group of bridges have stood for a long time abandoned and undocumented. It's nice to see the information coming together on this site.

Very nice to see pictures. Thanks, Daniel!

Major hat tip to Tedd Liggett for sending me a picture and the location of this one.

http://teddliggett.smugmug.com/

It shows up in Bing bird's eye:

http://binged.it/19dvX9S

The plate in photo 2 is a USGS survey mark. It indicates a point that is surveyed accurately enough that it can be used as a reference point for other surveys.

For a culvert it is mildly interesting. It appears original and over a century old, and the bell and spigot clay pipe is unusual.

A little reading on a nearby bridge gives the date, 1886, and explains the names.

http://bridgehunter.com/ks/chautauqua/bh43712/

Any idea how long ago the RR was built? The 1903 KS RR map also shows AT&SF but I don't know anything about when this line was built or by whom. I don't have much access to RR history, so your info source would be interesting to look at. I'm always curious what else might be out there undiscovered.

I've thought about trying to assemble photos of plaques posted here, perhaps sorted by builder and date. This would be very useful IMO. Plus generally fun to look at. If James doesn't have time to program it, perhaps someone here will step up and offer to build and host it--proper permissions first having been obtained.