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RCPE - Bad River Bridge #7
Description
Built 1885 in Winona, Minnesota as a Mississippi River Crossing, Was once located in spans #12-16Facts
- Overview
- Quadrangular lattice through truss bridge over Bad River on Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad
- Location
- Jones County, South Dakota
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1885 in Winona, Minnesota; Relocated here Ca. 1928
- Builder
- - Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)
- Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad (DME)
- Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad (RCP&E)
- Design
- Quadrangular lattice through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 159.0 ft.
Total length: 310.0 ft.
- Also called
- CNW - Bridge #1602
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.11828, -100.92052 (decimal degrees)
44°07'06" N, 100°55'14" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/346329/4886803 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Capa
- Inventory number
- BH 58058 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 22, 2020: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- July 22, 2017: New photos from John Marvig
- September 17, 2013: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "Canadian Pacific Railway", "railroad"
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
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Visited today - by accident, sort of dead end roads going east but was more into getting pix of road bridge next to it - didn't realize these were a few dozen yards apart - interesting spot, love the ornate flower cutouts at top of RR bridge - also, both east and west ends are skewed, another interesting characteristic