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BNSF - I-25 Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over I-25 on the BNSF Railway in Casper
- Location
- Casper, Natrona County, Wyoming
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1958 using a secondhand truss
- Railroads
- - BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 257.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.85670, -106.29414 (decimal degrees)
42°51'24" N, 106°17'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 13/394271/4745713 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Casper
- Inventory numbers
- WY AIA (Wyoming bridge identifier)
BH 35787 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 20, 2020: Updated by John Marvig: noted relocation
- September 13, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- September 6, 2014: New Street View added by Luke
- September 8, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Railroad"
- May 28, 2010: New Street View added by James Baughn
Sources
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Luke
- Geoff Hubbs
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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It appears that this bridge is not original to the 1950s. I see some interesting riveted connections, which seem to indicate the bridge was rebuild from an earlier 1900s pinned through truss span. In addition, this design matches several CBQ spans from the late 1890s and early 1900s