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CO&P - DuPage River Bridge
Photo
View fron BH50117 Iowa Interstate DuPage River Bridge
Photo taken by Steve Conro in January 2012
BH Photo #222982
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck plate girder bridge over DuPage River on Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Railway just N of Channahon
- Location
- Channahon, Will County, Illinois
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Removed 1934
- Railroads
- - Chicago & Illinois Valley Railway (C&IV)
- Chicago, Ottawa & Peoria Railway (CO&P)
- Interurban
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Total length: 130.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.46979, -88.20799 (decimal degrees)
41°28'11" N, 88°12'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/399129/4591614 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Channahon
- Inventory number
- BH 50861 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 26, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added removal date
- December 17, 2014: Updated by Luke: Added railroad
- January 7, 2012: Added by Steve Conro
Sources
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Luke
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There was an interurban electric line that ran from around Lasalle to Joliet that went belly up in the 30's.
If you look around the Illinois and Fox river valley areas you'll find plenty of old interurban right of ways (at least in areas not majorly built up since then)but not a lot of bridges since most of these interurban lines were shoe string budgets compared to the steam roads most bridges were timber construction with only major or fast water flood prone rivers justifying the expense of concrete and steel.