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Illinois Terminal/Wabash Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pony/through plate girder bridge over Wabash, later N&W Railway on Illinois Terminal Railroad
- Location
- Bement, Piatt County, Illinois
- Status
- Removed but not replaced account of IT line abandonment
- History
- Built 1928-9; Removed 1955
- Railroads
- - Illinois Terminal Railroad (IT; ITC)
- Interurban
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Pony plate girder on masonry abutments
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 17.2 ft.
Total length: 85.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.6 ft.
- Also called
- Illinois Terminal Railway bridge
Illinois Terminal Railway Bridge #S-62.8
Wabash Railroad Bridge #1425A - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.92393, -88.57963 (decimal degrees)
39°55'26" N, 88°34'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/365010/4420508 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bement
- Inventory number
- BH 65247 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 25, 2015: Updated by James Holzmeier: Added images & plans of bridge
- January 3, 2015: New Street View added by James Holzmeier
Related Bridges
- Illinois Traction/Wabash Overpass (Old) (Predecessor)
Sources
- James Holzmeier - wabashry [at] gmail [dot] com
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nice photo by Michael C Kelly from 1964 taken from this bridge site of the northbound Wabash train below!