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IAIS - Green River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lattice through truss bridge over Green River on Iowa Interstate RR (former Rock Island RR)
- Location
- Colona, Henry County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1900
- Railroads
- - Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRIP (1866-1920); RI (1920-1975) ROCK (1975-1980))
- Iowa Interstate Railroad (IAIS)
- Design
- Lattice through truss main with 5 span deck plate west approach
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 340.0 ft.
- Also called
- RI - Green River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.47992, -90.34486 (decimal degrees)
41°28'48" N, 90°20'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/721683/4595438 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Green Rock
- Inventory number
- BH 51707 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 29, 2015: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- October 22, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- March 15, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Wooden deck"
- March 15, 2012: New photos from Steve Conro
- March 14, 2012: Added by Steve Conro
Sources
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Flickr - Image
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- John Marvig Railroad Bridge Photography - John Marvig's Page on this bridge
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Well since the railroad ties are made of wood, and they are the only thing that could even be considered a deck on this railroad bridge, then the deck is therefore wooden.