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MILW - Middle English River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Middle English River on former Milwaukee Road
- Location
- Iowa County, Iowa
- Status
- Demolished
- History
- Line abandoned 1979, bridge removed shortly thereafter
- Railroad
- - Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Design
- 3 x 16' Concrete Slab
1 x 100' Deck Plate Girder
2 x 16' Concrete Slab - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.0 ft.
Total length: 180.0 ft.
- Also called
- MILW Bridge #I-812
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.54067, -92.04404 (decimal degrees)
41°32'26" N, 92°02'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/579737/4599220 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- North English
- Land survey
- T. 78 N., R. 10 W., Sec. 19
- Elevation
- 726 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 56081 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 11, 2019: New photo from Tim Courtney
- April 22, 2013: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Added categories "Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad", "railroad"
Sources
- Dylan VanAntwerp - dylan_vanantwerp [at] live [dot] com
- Iowa State University Geographic Information Systems - 1970s Aerial Imagery
Comments
MILW - Middle English River Bridge
The pier in the middle makes me think two DPG spans.
MILW - Middle English River Bridge
I took a best guess when I posted it based off the pixelated squiggles on the track chart. Corrections welcome.
MILW - Middle English River Bridge
Found in a 1970 track chart:
Bridge #I-812
3-15' C. Br
Steel Br Deck 100'x28'
2-16' Sp C. Br
Doesn't specify one span, could've been 2-50' spans or a similar configuration?
MILW - Middle English River Bridge
Does not appear to be a single 100ft DPG as there is a pier in middle. Someone with a track chart could perhaps look up the appropriate span info.
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A good mystery here. Based on the difference in elevation between top of pier and the top of rail would be somewhat inclined to give thought that it may have been a variant of truss spans as opposed to DPG. Or perhaps since track charts say DPG they were used as a replacement for washout. Didn’t post the pic but original bridge was a timber pile trestle our canoe drug across the timbers.