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UP - Snake River Bridge
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UP - Snake River Bridge
Photo taken by C Hanchey in August 2014
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
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BH Photo #324204
Description
Built for the Camas Prairie Railroad(joint venture of Union Pacific RR and Northern Pacific Rwy.). Replaced 1884 bridge removed for construction of Lower Monumental Dam.
Facts
- Overview
- Polygonal Warren through truss with all verticals bridge over Snake River on Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Columbia County, Washington, and Whitman County, Washington
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1971
- Railroads
- - Camas Prairie Railroad (CSP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Polygonal Warren through truss with all verticals with steel girder approach spans.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 410.0 ft.
Total length: 1,220.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +46.56451, -118.18322 (decimal degrees)
46°33'52" N, 118°10'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/409316/5157451 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Starbuck West
- Inventory number
- BH 51775 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 23, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- April 16, 2018: Updated by Richard Doody: Corrected year built added info
- May 8, 2015: New photos from C Hanchey
- March 21, 2012: Added by Michael Goff
Sources
- Mike Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] hotmail [dot] com
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Richard Doody
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com