Rating:
14419
{69}%
3 votes
DAIR - Big Sioux River Bridge
Photos
Main spans
Photo taken by Jason Smith
BH Photo #101882
Description
Build date provided by C&NW bridge records at the Chicago & North Western Railway Historical Society archives
Facts
- Overview
- Three-span through truss bridge over Big Sioux River on the Dakota & Iowa Railroad at Hawarden
- Location
- Hawarden, Sioux County, Iowa, and Union County, South Dakota
- Status
- Open to railroad traffic
- History
- Built 1904, Girders Added 1913
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroads
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Quadrangular lattice through truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 1,097.0 ft.
- Also called
- C&NW Bridge #2601
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.99811, -96.49734 (decimal degrees)
42°59'53" N, 96°29'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/703998/4763644 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hawarden South
- Inventory number
- BH 14419 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 23, 2019: Updated by John Marvig: Added information from C&NW Bridge Records
- January 9, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
- January 3, 2016: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- May 7, 2014: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- October 26, 2012: Updated by Jason Smith: Added categories "A-frame portal", "Big Sioux River"
- August 2, 2010: New Street View added by Jason Smith
- September 26, 2005: Posted photos from Jason Smith
Sources
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Luke
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com