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Illinois Terminal - Cahokia Creek Viaduct
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Wabash Railroad and Cahokia Creek on former Illinois Terminal Railroad near Edwardsville, IL
- Location
- Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois
- Status
- Lost
- History
- built ca. 1900 by Illinois Terminal Railroad, removed after line discontinued
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroads
- - Alton, Granite, & St. Louis Traction Co. (AG&StL)
- Illinois Terminal Railroad (IT; ITC)
- Interurban
- St. Louis & Alton Railway (StL&A)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Lattice through truss
- Also called
- Illinois Terminal/Wabash Overpass
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.81994, -89.98392 (decimal degrees)
38°49'12" N, 89°59'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/240938/4301026 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Edwardsville
- Inventory number
- BH 38167 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- Watershed Trail - Cahokia Creek Bridge (Successor)
- Watershed Trail/NS Overpass (Successor)
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Picture is not the Illinois Terminal bridge over Cahokia Creek/Wabash RR. It is a picture of a bridge located a little further south that crossed a creek and the original steam powered Illinois Terminal RR. Was originally the Allen electric line, built by the Alton, Granite & St Louis Electric line. Notice the bridge in the picture is a electric line bridge. This line was taken over by the East St. Louis & Suburban Electric line, reorganized as the St. Louis & Alton Electric line, and later taken over by the Illinois Traction System in the late 1920's. The Illinois Traction System, which took over the steam powered IT, reorganized, and adopted the Illinois Terminal name, abandoned this line and bridge in the early 1930's. On the attached map, taken from a 1932 USGS Edwardsville Topo map, this electric line bridge would be in the lower box where the St. Louis & Alton Electric line is shown crossing the steam powered Illinois Terminal RR. The Illinois Terminal bridge crossing Cahokia Creek/Wabash RR would be in the upper box near Bluff Junction.