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GBW - Wisconsin River Bridge

Wood County, Wisconsin

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GBW - Wisconsin River Bridge

Photo taken by railfan44

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over Wisconsin River on Green Bay & Western RR
Location
Wisconsin Rapids, Wood County, Wisconsin
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
1898
Builder
- Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Railroad
- Green Bay & Western Railroad (GB&W)
Design
Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+44.40154, -89.82090   (decimal degrees)
44°24'06" N, 89°49'15" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/275365/4920342 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 92300 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,936)
Built 1898 (317)
Built during 1890s (3,077)
Green Bay & Western Railroad (16)
Lost (26,752)
Lost 1991 (320)
Lost during 1990s (4,066)
Owned by railroad (13,083)
Pin-connected (4,135)
Pratt through truss (5,715)
 Pratt truss (9,799)
Railroad (16,163)
Replaced by new bridge (18,148)
Through truss (15,894)
Truss (34,159)
Wisconsin (1,592)
Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. (172)
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin (4)
Wisconsin River (59)
Wood County, Wisconsin (17)

Update Log 

  • November 21, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added information
  • March 3, 2021: New photos from Geoff Hubbs

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