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UP - Idaho Falls Bridge (Old)
Description
"A new iron railroad bridge was fabricated in Athens, Pennsylvania at a cost of $30,000 and shipped, by rail, to the site and erected in April and May 1879" - Deseret News, 7-17-1879
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Snake River on Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Idaho Falls, Bonneville County, Idaho
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1879
- Builder
- - Union Bridge Co. of Buffalo, New York & Athens, Pennsylvania
- Railroad
- - Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Also called
- U&N - Idaho Falls Bridge
UP - Snake River Bridge (Idaho Falls, Old)
U&N - Snake River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.49201, -112.04518 (decimal degrees)
43°29'31" N, 112°02'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 12/415491/4815984 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Idaho Falls South
- Inventory number
- BH 65947 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 11, 2015: Added by Luke