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RCPE - Bad River Bridge #14
Description
Built 1885 in Winona, Minnesota as a Mississippi River Crossing, Was once located in spans #12-16
Facts
- Overview
- Quadrangular lattice through truss bridge over Bad River on Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad
- Location
- Stanley County, South Dakota
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1885 in Winona, 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: 1,025.0 ft.
- Also called
- CNW - Bridge #1508
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.33588, -100.37887 (decimal degrees)
44°20'09" N, 100°22'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/390075/4910103 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pierre SW
- Inventory number
- BH 54202 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 22, 2017: New photos from John Marvig
- October 29, 2012: Added by Luke Harden