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CN - Chippewa River Trestle
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Chippewa River on Canadian National Railway (formerly Soo Line Railroad, Wisconsin Central Ltd.) in Chippewa Falls
- Location
- Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1917 with Concrete arches and 5 Deck Plate Girder main spans, rebuilt 1998 with 5 new DPG main spans.
- Railroads
- - Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Soo Line Railroad (SOO)
- Wisconsin Central Ltd. (WC)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 115.0 ft.
Total length: 780.0 ft.
- Also called
- Soo Line - Chippewa River Trestle
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.92916, -91.40163 (decimal degrees)
44°55'45" N, 91°24'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/626131/4976323 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chippewa Falls
- Inventory number
- BH 43025 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 17, 2013: New photos from John Marvig
- August 10, 2012: Updated by John Marvig: Added category "Railroad"
- July 17, 2009: Updated by J.R. Manning
- July 16, 2009: Added by J.R. Manning
Sources
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- PDM Bridges - A page discussing the rebuilt of the bridge in 1998
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Yeah, they were a warren deck truss type. Still stumped as to why they would replace such heavy and newer trusses in 1998.