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CNW - Fox River Bridge (1883)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Lattice deck truss bridge over Fox River on Chicago & North Western Railway
- Location
- Geneva, Kane County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1883, Replaced 1920
- Builder
- - Alden & Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroad
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Design
- 2-125' Lattice Deck Trusses
2-119' Lattice Deck Trusses
Each span had three truss lines, including "light" outer trusses and a "heavy" inner truss line. - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 125.0 ft.
Total length: 490.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.88162, -88.30419 (decimal degrees)
41°52'54" N, 88°18'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/391788/4637454 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 83009 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 14, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added builder
- October 1, 2018: New photo from Luke
- October 1, 2018: Added by John Marvig
Related Bridges
- Sangamon Valley Trail - Spring Creek Bridge (Parts reused in)
- UP - Fox River Bridge (Geneva) (1920) (Successor)
- UP - Lick Creek Bridge (Parts reused in)
Sources
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Luke
- The Railroad Gazette 1884-01-11: Vol 16
- LOC Photo
Comments
C&NW - Fox River Bridge (Old)
Through some research, it appears that Chicago & Northwestern was resourceful and re-used one of the lattice truss spans in this bridge over Spring Creek in Sangamon County, Illinois. https://bridgehunter.com/il/sangamon/bh45592/
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I would like to find more on this one, but the date seems pretty much set. I believe parallel trusses were used as a double track lattice deck truss was likely not feasible back then, so I doubt one set is older than the other. I would guess Alden & Lassig probably did the fabrication of these trusses.
On a side note, a second bridge in Sangamon County was found to reuse Spans A and D of this bridge. One of the Sangamon County spans was double trussed, but not the other two, possibly to assure the material from the four total truss spans was reused.