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UP - Palouse River Bridge Br279.10
Photos
View from south end of bridge looking north.
Photo taken by Kyle Jarvis in July 2008
BH Photo #338883
Description
Deck Pratt truss with unusual design involving one end being supported on the bottom chord and the other end being supported on the top chord. Quoting the Railway Age Gazette from May 31, 1912: "The truss span will rest on a pier at the south end, and will be hung from a pin connection in the upper chord at the north end. The erection of this structure will present some interesting problems, for it is desired to erect it as a cantilever from the north end. To do this it will be necessary to construct temporary horizontal and vertical struts under the first panel point of the lower chord and tie the upper chord pins to a very heavy anchorage some distance back from the face of the canyon."Facts
- Overview
- Pratt deck truss bridge over Palouse River on Union Pacific RR Ayer Subdivision
- Location
- Whitman County, Washington, and Franklin County, Washington
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1912
- Railroad
- - Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Pratt deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 235.0 ft.
- Also called
- UP Br279.10
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +46.69114, -118.22424 (decimal degrees)
46°41'28" N, 118°13'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/406391/5171570 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Palouse Falls
- Inventory number
- BH 69531 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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