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MILW - Sauk City Bridge (Old)
Description
Whipple truss originally built 1881 at Sabula, Iowa and relocated here in 1908. Replaced with two secondhand pony truss spans in 1943.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Wisconsin River on Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Sauk City, Sauk County, Wisconsin, and Dane County, Wisconsin
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1908 using a relocated truss, Truss Replaced 1943
- Railroad
- - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Design
- Whipple through truss
Bobtail swing deck plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.26483, -89.72629 (decimal degrees)
43°15'53" N, 89°43'35" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/278736/4793833 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sauk City
- Inventory number
- BH 63738 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 19, 2014: Added by Luke