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UP - Salt Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Quadrangular Through truss bridge over Salt Creek on UPRR (Former C&NW) SE of Mason City
- Location
- Mason County, Illinois, and Menard County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1913, Approaches Added Ca. 1920
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York (approaches)
- King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio
- Railroad
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Design
- Quadrangular Through truss over creek with 20 span deck girder approach on the south and 28 span deck girder approach on the north
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 130.0 ft.
Total length: 2,018.0 ft. (0.4 mi.)
- Also called
- C&NW Bridge #1085
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.15495, -89.64485 (decimal degrees)
40°09'18" N, 89°38'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/274733/4448309 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mason City
- Inventory number
- BH 50910 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 27, 2020: Updated by John Marvig: added information
- September 27, 2020: New photos from Steve Conro
- February 16, 2012: Updated by Steve Conro: Added category "Chicago & North Western Railway"
- January 12, 2012: Added by Steve Conro
Sources
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
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I agree. At least some of the deck girders were added in the 1920s. It seems that a lot of stuff was upgraded about 10 years after this line was originally built. I didn’t realize it was fairly tall as well. The piers are unusual, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like that before on a railroad bridge. Even with the safety platforms, I’m not sure I would even attempt to walk over this one. I’m not sure what kind of traffic comes down this line either.