Rating:
46494
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2 votes
RCPE - Cheyenne River Bridge
Photos
Looking East
RR bridge to the south of the highway bridge.
Photo taken by Clark Vance in Aug 2010
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BH Photo #182453
Description
Originally built in approximately 1885 at an unknown location, two spans relocated here in 1927
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Cheyenne River on Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad
- Location
- Pennington County, South Dakota
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1927, Using two Ca. 1885 Spans
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York (Spans #2 and #3)
- Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois (Spans #1 and #4)
- Railroads
- - Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)
- Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad (DME)
- Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad (RCP&E)
- Design
- Two Warren through trusses in the middle, lattice through trusses on the ends, trestle approaches.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 159.0 ft.
Total length: 1,370.0 ft.
- Also called
- CNW - Cheyenne River Bridge
CNW - Bridge #1813
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.08028, -102.40088 (decimal degrees)
44°04'49" N, 102°24'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/708103/4884074 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wasta
- Land survey
- T. 1 N., R. 14 E., Sec 2
- Elevation
- 2290 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 46494 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 27, 2017: New photos from John Marvig
- July 27, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
- October 13, 2010: Added by Clark Vance
Sources
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Pieces of this structure were reportedly built in 1885 at Winona, Minnesota as part of a long bridge. They were relocated here sometime around the turn of the 20th century. There are several other bridges like this on the line.