BN - 15th Street Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Foss Waterway on Burlington Northern Railroad
- Location
- Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Built 1914; Abandoned 1973 due to damage from an erroneously routed Boeing load, likely removed shortly thereafter.
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Gerrick & Gerrick Co. of Seattle, Washington.
- Railroads
- - Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
- Northern Pacific Railroad (NP)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Vertical clearance above deck: 18.5 ft.
- Also called
- BN - 14th Street Bridge
NP - 14th Street Bridge
NP - 15th Street Bridge
NP - Foss Waterway Bridge
BN - Foss Waterway Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +47.25085, -122.43323 (decimal degrees)
47°15'03" N, 122°25'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 10/542886/5233196 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Tacoma North
- Inventory number
- BH 63851 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 11, 2016: New photo from Luke
- November 20, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- October 26, 2014: Added by Luke
Related Bridges
- NP - 15th Street Bridge (Old) (Predecessor)
Sources
- Luke
- Douglas Butler
- Earth Sea Imagery - Imagery #1
- Earth Sea Imagery - Imagery #2
- Trainboard - Image
- RailroadForums - Info
Comments
This bridge was taken down in 1983.
That would've been the Union Pacific bridge, which lasted into the 80s: https://bridgehunter.com/wa/pierce/bh55394/
I believe that your info on this bridge is not correct. I live in Tacoma Wa where this bridge was located. You say that it was no longer used after 1973 (when it was removed).
I did not receive a drivers license until I was 16 years old in Dec. 1975, and I can remember using that bridge as a short cut across the waterway to beat traffic on the 11th street bridge near by I used this bridge all the way through high school (graduated in 1978). So I can personally verify, from personal experience, that it was in use through 1978.
It was a swing bridge that I thought un usual, as it had the railroad track down the center, and the traffic lanes outboard so the lanes were split by the R/R track....
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/wa/pierce/bh63851/
Greg, your image is also related to the UP bridge, not of this one.