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220th Street Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over UPRR on CR P33 (220th Street)
- Location
- Webster County, Iowa
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1925
- Railroad
- - Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway (M&StL; MSTL)
- Design
- Howe pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 76.1 ft.
Total length: 78.1 ft.
Deck width: 21.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.47221, -94.29273 (decimal degrees)
42°28'20" N, 94°17'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/393733/4703017 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Moorland
- Land survey
- T. 88 N., R. 30 W., Sec. 1
- Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 90
- Inventory numbers
- IA 342800 (Iowa bridge number)
BH 14708 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of November 2009)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 53 (out of 100)
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Sources
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
© Copyright 2002-19, James Baughn and contributors.
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Looking at Nathan's documentation of this bridge, it appears that this is another example of a railroad bridge reused for a road. There were at least two more examples in the Twin Cities of this along Minneapolis & St. Louis tracks, both which were confirmed to be railroad spans with valuation material. Unfortunately, this is the last survivor of M&StL pony truss overpasses.
On a side note, it is unknown where these came from. There is no record of the railroad ever using these for railroad use anywhere on the system. As a smaller railroad, is it possible they bought the secondhand spans from another railroad?