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Medicine Bow River Bridge

Carbon County, Wyoming

Photo 

The Ekola Bridge (1914) crossing the Medicine Bow River. Viewed southerly from off the side of Medicine Bow Rd. (Carbon Co. Rd. 121). Medicine Bow, Wyoming

Photo taken by Panoramio user Elifino 57

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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BH Photo #348785

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Medicine Bow River on CN6-121
Location
Carbon County, Wyoming
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1914; rehabilitated 1972
Design
Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 140.1 ft.
Total length: 143.1 ft.
Deck width: 17.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.00171, -106.36479   (decimal degrees)
42°00'06" N, 106°21'53" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
13/386973/4650866 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Windy Hill
Average daily traffic (as of 2016)
412
Inventory numbers
WY DND (Wyoming bridge identifier)
BH 35732 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of August 2017)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 4 (out of 100)
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Categories 

Built 1914 (812)
Built during 1910s (9,675)
Carbon County, Wyoming (16)
Corrugated deck (488)
Open (39,979)
Owned by county (20,849)
Pin-connected (3,920)
Pratt through truss (5,426)
 Pratt truss (9,347)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,236)
Structurally deficient (14,101)
Through truss (15,181)
Total length 125-175 feet (5,937)
Truss (32,961)
Wyoming (370)

Update Log 

  • August 1, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
  • February 10, 2016: Photo imported by Dave King

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