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Chippewa River State Trail - Lowes Creek Bridge

Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

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Lowes Creek Trail Bridge

Looking west

Photo taken by John Marvig in March 2019

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BH Photo #445854

Map 

Description 

Originally built 1893 at Bridge #I-824 (Kansas City Division-Mosby, Missouri). Moved here 1931 (upon relocation of KC division).

Information comes from the Milwaukee Road Archives at the Milwaukee Central Library.

Facts 

Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Lowes Creek on Chippewa River State Trail
Location
Eau Claire, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin
Status
Open to pedestrians only
History
Built 1893 at Bridge #I-824; Moved here 1931
Railroad
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
Design
Deck plate girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 54.0 ft.
Total length: 82.0 ft.
Also called
MILW Bridge #M-184
Approximate latitude, longitude
+44.77879, -91.54370   (decimal degrees)
44°46'44" N, 91°32'37" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/615219/4959408 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 84767 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (17,489)
Built 1931 (994)
Built during 1930s (12,361)
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (1,141)
Chippewa River State Trail (2)
Deck girder (6,699)
Eau Claire County, Wisconsin (45)
Eau Claire, Wisconsin (27)
Fishbelly Deck Girder (13)
Girder (11,783)
 Open to pedestrians (4,715)
Owned by state (16,806)
Plate girder (9,289)
Rail-to-trail (1,685)
Railroad (17,179)
Relocated (1,112)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,710)
Timber stringer (4,521)
Total length 75-100 feet (7,124)
Wisconsin (1,809)

Update Log 

  • May 8, 2022: Updated by John Marvig: added relocation information
  • March 28, 2019: New photos from John Marvig
  • March 24, 2019: Added by John Marvig

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Chippewa River State Trail - Lowes Creek Bridge
Posted May 8, 2022, by John Marvig (marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com)

This span came from one of many "I" bridges I cannot track down. When the Milwaukee Road realigned their tracks from Polo, Missouri into Kansas City, the Milwaukee Road numbering system was abandoned and the Rock Island renumbered the new bridges.

Unfortunately, the Milwaukee Road Archives, where today's updates were pulled from does not have many of the mainline bridge indexes, such as the C, I, K, L, O, R, S and Z bridges, which were mainly donors of spans to these branch lines. I strongly suspect that the Soo Line/Canadian Pacific acquired them after the merger in 1985.