Bridgehunter.com | SIRy - Chariton River Bridge

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Photo taken by Roger Puta; Uploaded to Flickr by Marty Bernard

License: Public domain: Released by author

BH Photo #396575

Builder courtesy of the Hagley Museum & Library, Phoenix Bridge Company records

Overview: Lost Subdivided Warren through truss bridge over Chariton River on former Southern Industrial Railroad/Southern Iowa Railway
Location: Appanoose County, Iowa
Status: Demolished
History: Built 1900, closed due to severe fire damage 1966, demolished soon after.
Builder: - Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Railroads: - Albia & Centerville Railway (A&C)
- Centerville, Albia, & Southern Railway (CA&S)
- Interurban
- Iowa Central Railway (IAC)
- Iowa Southern Utilities/Southern Industrial Railroad (ISU)
- Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway (MSTL)
- Southern Iowa Railway (SIRy)
- Southern Iowa Traction
Design: 1 x 138' Subdivided Warren Through Truss
2 x Deck Plate Girder
Timber Pile Trestle Approaches
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 138.0 ft.
Also called: Southern Industrial Railroad Chariton River Bridge
Southern Iowa Railway Chariton River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.79036, -92.86177 (decimal degrees)
40°47'25" N, 92°51'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/511662/4515494 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Hiattsville
Inventory number: BH 58936 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Don's Rail Photos - Info on the Southern Iowa Railway, brief mention of the bridge.
Luke
Dylan VanAntwerp - dylan_vanantwerp [at] live [dot] com
Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1930s Aerial Imagery
John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com