Bloomer Line - Unnamed Ditch Bridge

Map 

Street View 

• View looking east from IL Hwy. 47

Facts 

Overview

Steel stringer bridge over Unknown ditch on Wabash, later N&W, later NS, now Bloomer Line Railroad

Location

Ford County, Illinois

Status

Open to rail traffic

History

Original 12' pile trestle bridge at this location built 1880; rebuilt 1932 with this bridge

Railroads

- Bloomer Shippers Connecting Railroad (BLOL)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)

Design

Steel stringer

Dimensions

Length of largest span: 20.0 ft.
Total length: 21.5 ft.
Deck width: 13.5 ft.

Also called

Wabash - Unnamed Ditch Bridge
Wabash Railroad Bridge #1278

Approximate latitude, longitude

+40.61717, -88.38692   (decimal degrees)
40°37'02" N, 88°23'13" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

16/382683/4497184 (zone/easting/northing)

Quadrangle map:

Sibley

Inventory number

BH 64795 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• December 16, 2014: New Street View added by James Holzmeier

Sources 

• James Holzmeier - wabashry [at] gmail [dot] com

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