Rating:
No votes cast
390th Street Overpass
Description
Built using a secondhand girder from Bridge #B-378; the eastern pontoon bridge at Prairie du Chein, Wisconsin; which was originally fabricated 1898.Information comes from the Milwaukee Road Archives at the Milwaukee Central Library.
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over BNSF on 390th Street
- Location
- Crawford County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1913 using a secondhand span built 1898
- Railroads
- - BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 41.0 ft.
Total length: 157.2 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- MILW Bridge #Z-1338 1/2
MILW Bridge #Z-1338.5 - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.91044, -95.11235 (decimal degrees)
41°54'38" N, 95°06'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/324810/4641989 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Manning
- Inventory numbers
- IA 126110 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 77970 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 8, 2022: Updated by John Marvig: added relocation information
- October 27, 2018: New photos from John Marvig
- July 20, 2017: Added by Daniel Barnes
Related Bridges
- MILW - Pile-Pontoon Bridge (Prairie du Chein) (Parts reused from) - One span reused
Sources
- Daniel Barnes
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
390th Street Overpass
This bridge bears a resemblance to a bridge in my hometown:
http://bridgehunter.com/mn/carver/mcknight-road/
The Minnesota bridge was built using girders that were rebuilt for road use. It would not surprise me if that was the case here as well.
© Copyright 2021, Historic Bridge Foundation and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/crawford/bh77970/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ia/crawford/bh77970/
I finally found records giving a history of this structure. It appears it was built as a hinge span to the eastern Pile-Pontoon Bridge at Prairie du Chein, Wisconsin in 1898 and moved here in 1913. The hinge detail would explain the unusual shape on one end.