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Wabash - Cedar Creek Bridge (Old)
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Wabash Railroad Bridge #2864
Originally "Span C" of Wabash Bridge #499, over the Grand River at Brunswick, Missouri.
Wabash Railroad plan
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
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Description
This span was originally Span C of Wabash Bridge #499 over the Grand River at Brunswick, Missouri. Brought to this location and renamed Wabash Bridge #2864 in 1916, when the original 4-span through-truss bridge #499 was replaced.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Cedar Creek on Wabash Railroad
- Location
- Marion County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a new DPG bridge in 1930 (per Wabash RR documents)
- History
- Built 1885; replaced by a new DPG bridge in 1930 (per Wabash RR documents)
- Railroad
- - Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Whipple through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 147.8 ft.
Total length: 760.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 26.0 ft.
- Also called
- Wabash Railroad Bridge #2864
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.25390, -92.88073 (decimal degrees)
41°15'14" N, 92°52'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/509992/4566950 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Harvey
- Inventory number
- BH 63833 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 27, 2014: Updated by James Holzmeier: Updated year of replacement
- October 26, 2014: Added by James Holzmeier