Janesville Bridge (N)

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Photo provided by Hank Zaletel

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

BH Photo #250109

Overview: Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Cedar River on West Barrick Road
Location: Janesville, Bremer County, Iowa
Status: Removed
History: Built 1882, removed 2001 due to structural concerns
Builder: - King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
Design: Pratt through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 128.0 ft.
Total length: 462.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Also called: Cedar River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +42.64949, -92.46635 (decimal degrees)
42°38'58" N, 92°27'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/543743/4722030 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Waverly
Inventory numbers: IA 6700 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 55773 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

December 7, 2020: New photo from Luke
August 10, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Lally columns", "Pin-connected", "Wooden deck"
March 11, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected build date and merged NBI data
March 11, 2013: Updated by Jason Smith: Renamed and updated information on the bridge. Structure long since gone.
March 10, 2013: Added by Luke Harden

Janesville Bridge (N)

Posted November 22, 2018, by Ross Brown (bluehavanaross [at] gmail [dot] com)

One span of the bridge collapsed in 1992 after a traffic accident, and the rest was removed in 2001. A pedestrian bridge opened in its place in 2014.