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IC - Murphysboro Bridge
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Uploaded by Melissa Brand-Welch
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BH Photo #438922
Description
Built 1941 using secondhand spans.
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Big Muddy River on Railroad
- Location
- Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois
- Status
- Removed
- Railroad
- - Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 177.0 ft.
Total length: 324.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.76072, -89.32535 (decimal degrees)
37°45'39" N, 89°19'31" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/295164/4181812 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 9 S., R. 2 W., Sec. 9
- Elevation
- 350 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 83619 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 15, 2019: Updated by John Marvig: added build date from IC track profile
- November 26, 2018: New photo from Clark Vance
- November 25, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added GPS
- November 25, 2018: Added by Melissa Brand-Welch
Sources
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Luke
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Thanks Luke !