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WSOR - Wisconsin River Back Channel Bridge
Photo
Bridge is in the background
Photo taken by Lance
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
BH Photo #241682
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Wisconsin River on Railroad
- Location
- Sauk City, Dane County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1888 in St. Paul, Minnesota; Relocated Here in 1915
- Builder
- - Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW; CMStP&P; CMStP)
- Wisconsin & Calumet Railroad (WICT)
- Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Also called
- WICT - Wisconsin River Back Channel Bridge
MILW - Wisconsin River Back Channel Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.26365, -89.72420 (decimal degrees)
43°15'49" N, 89°43'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/278901/4793697 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sauk City
- Inventory number
- BH 54069 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 6, 2016: Updated by John Marvig: Added Build Date
- July 3, 2013: Updated by John Marvig: Bridge is a pratt through truss
- October 21, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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The Back Channel Bridge is in the far, far background. That's the main channel Swing Bridge ( http://bridgehunter.com/wi/sauk/bh46753/ ) in the foreground.