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CN - Menominee River Bridge (Wisconsin)
Photos
Looking upriver
Marinette is on the left bank; the other end of the bridge is on an island, locally known as "Bum Island". During the depression of the 1930's, the uninhabited island became the local hobo camp.
Photo taken by Robert Thompson in March 2012
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BH Photo #227465
Description
Simple steel girders on alternating cut limestone and poured concrete piers. The limestone piers appear to have been cut away to fit the current steel girders. I surmise there was originally a truss bridge on the limestone piers; later, concrete piers were added between the stone piers and the trusses were replaced with shorter girder spans of heavier capacity.
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Menominee River on CN Railroad
- Location
- Marinette, Marinette County, Wisconsin, and Menominee County, Michigan
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Railroad
- - Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Design
- Deck plate girder on alternating stone and concrete piers.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +45.10407, -87.63366 (decimal degrees)
45°06'15" N, 87°38'01" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/450148/4994706 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Marinette West
- Elevation
- 595 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 51682 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 15, 2013: New photo from Robert Thompson
- October 2, 2012: New photos from Jann Mayer
- March 12, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
- March 11, 2012: Added by Robert Thompson
To bad no has a picture of the orginal brdge or her sister bridge that was next to her.