Eau Claire River Bridge

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Your First Clue your quarry is lost is a curve in the road...

When you see the road curve slightly before the bridge you're looking for, you can be pretty sure your target is gone.

Professor Kevin Patrick, of Indiana University of Pennsylvania says that when a straight road curves slightly, crosses a bridge, then gently curves back to the original alignment, the bridge is a replacement that was built next to its predecessor. Sadly, that's true here and I was too late to get the deck truss that was here.

Photo taken by J.R. Manning in July 2009

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Overview: Lost Warren deck truss bridge over Eau Claire River on WI 27
Location: Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Status: Replaced by New Bridge
History: Built 1935; rehabilitated 1986; Replaced circa 2008
Design: Riveted, 10-panel Warren deck truss with all verticals
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 146.0 ft.
Total length: 478.4 ft.
Deck width: 29.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +44.75278, -91.14472 (decimal degrees)
44°45'10" N, 91°08'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/646851/4957161 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Lake Eau Claire West
Inventory number: BH 34752 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

April 6, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added truss type & categories "10-panel truss", "Riveted"
April 10, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
July 10, 2009: Updated by J.R. Manning: Updated Status

Sources

J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
Geoff Hubbs