Rating:
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CNW - Galena River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Quadrangular lattice through truss bridge over Galena River on Chicago & North Western Railway
- Location
- Lafayette County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built 1880, Relocated Here 1910; Removed Ca. 1930
- Builder
- - Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroad
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Design
- Quadrangular lattice through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 146.0 ft.
- Also called
- CNW - Buncombe Tunnel Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.50973, -90.38568 (decimal degrees)
42°30'35" N, 90°23'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/714781/4709685 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cuba City
- Inventory number
- BH 54919 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 22, 2019: Updated by John Marvig: Added information from C&NW Bridge Records
- December 15, 2012: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Luke
- Mid-Continent Railway Museum - Image
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Looks like an late 1880's/early 1890's lassig B&I works bridge.
Compare to the mid 1890's version of their Quadrangular Lattice Through Truss built for C&NW (who also owned this line in Lafayette County)
http://pegnsean.net/~johnm/pictures/11607.JPG