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Illinois Terminal - Mackinaw River Bridge
Photos
Image courtesy of the Illinois Digital Archives and the Lake County Discovery Museum
View this photo at idaillinois.org
BH Photo #349919
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Mackinaw River on Illinois Terminal Railroad
- Location
- Tazewell County, Illinois
- Status
- Destroyed by derailment
- History
- Built 1907; Destroyed 1977
- Railroads
- - Illinois Terminal Railroad (IT; ITC)
- Illinois Traction System (ITS)
- Interurban
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Also called
- ITR - Mackinaw River Bridge
Illinois Traction - Mackinaw River Bridge
ITS - Mackinaw River Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.53971, -89.37384 (decimal degrees)
40°32'23" N, 89°22'26" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/298965/4490370 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mackinaw
- Land survey
- T. 24 N., R. 2 W., Sec. 18
- Elevation
- 600 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 67557 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 6, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 25, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added build date
- May 12, 2015: Added by Luke
Related Bridges
- Vandalia - Mackinaw River Bridge (Old) (Predecessor)
Sources
- Luke
- Illinois Digital Archives - Dead link
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
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I think I have a picture as well. My grandpa took me to the crash site. I remember seeing that line going through Morton IL before the crash.