Photo taken by Mark
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BH Photo #231707
I'm a rancher in Nebraska. Can I buy this bridge? Where did it go?
Online maps are still showing both halves of the bridge sitting in fields. And the street view is of the east side. The West Side is sitting back from the road along the tree line and the East side is in the middle of the field. When we drove by the other day I did not notice the east bridge but we were not looking for it either. The weeds in the fields are quite tall and it could have been missed.
plan was to use the old bridge as part of Skunk River Bike Trail over Squaw Creek just to the north. Span might have come up just short.
Well if someone does not find a spot to reuse it, the bridge will become lost. Same thing happened with the Whitney Road Bridge. They built a fancy new UCEB and placed the old truss in the middle of a field next to the road. It sat there for a couple years and then just disappeared, scrapped most likely.
Might want to amend the LOST status.....as the bridge does still exist.
Bridge confirmed as replaced via google streeview along with a photo on panoramio: http://www.panoramio.com/user/246368?comment_page=4&photo_pa...
This bridge appears to have been replaced.
The latest GE imagery shows that there is still one span left; it's on the edge of the tree line on the west side of the river, about 500 feet north of the road. Only the span on the east side of the river has been removed.