Rating:
59588
{70}%
4 votes
UP - Lick Creek Bridge
Photos
View From Highway Bridge
Source: IDOT ESR Report
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BH Photo #273784
Description
1-37' Reinforced Concrete Arch Abutment
2-124'8" Riveted Deck Lattice Truss span
1-118'11" Riveted Deck Lattice Truss span
1-37' Reinforced Concrete Arch Abutment
Built 1921 using spans A & D of bridge #66; Galena Division (Geneva, Illinois). Southern span double trussed. AFE# C-142.18
Facts
- Overview
- Lattice deck truss bridge over Lick Creek on Railroad
- Location
- Sangamon County, Illinois
- Status
- abandoned but intact
- History
- Built 1921 using deck trusses built 1883
- Builder
- - Alden & Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroad
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Design
- Lattice deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 125.0 ft.
Total length: 443.0 ft.
- Also called
- C&NW Bridge #1890
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.69905, -89.76122 (decimal degrees)
39°41'57" N, 89°45'40" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/263254/4398001 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Loami
- Inventory number
- BH 59588 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 14, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added builder
- April 22, 2021: Updated by John Marvig: added relocation information
- March 30, 2015: New photos from Steve Conro
- March 5, 2014: New photos from Elliott Johnson
- February 12, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Changed status
- February 9, 2014: New Street View added by J.P.
- February 5, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added RR info from vintage Illinois Roadmap
- February 5, 2014: Added by Nathan Holth
Sources
- Nathan Holth
- Luke
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Elliott Johnson - elliottsgon15 [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Br No 1890 over Lick Creek