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Sioux City Elevated Railway
Photos
Public Domain: Published prior to 1923; Photo courtesy of the Sioux City Public Museum
View this photo at historyculturebybicycle.blogspot.com
BH Photo #440429
Description
The Sioux City Elevated Railway went from a station as 3rd/Jones Street to ground level at Leech Avenue near what is now US75, where it continued at ground-level on Transit Avenue to Peters Park..
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss & steel stringer viaduct over City Streets on Sioux City Elevated Railway
- Location
- Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built 1891, Service ended 1899; Removed 1900
- Builder
- - King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
- Railroad
- - Sioux City Elevated Railway
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 10,560.0 ft. (2.0 mi.)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.49307, -96.39081 (decimal degrees)
42°29'35" N, 96°23'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/714417/4707822 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sioux City South
- Elevation
- 1157 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 57818 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 1, 2019: New photo from Luke
- June 6, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added info; Main truss reused after abandoment
- August 31, 2013: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- 4th Street Bridge (Parts reused in)
Sources
- Luke
- Sioux City History - Historical info.
- Sioux City Journal - Images of a pair of MASSIVE lally collumns
© Copyright 2002-20, James Baughn and contributors.
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The elevated line started at 3rd and Jones, not 34th & jones. See http://www.siouxcityhistory.org/transportation/114-elevated-...