Rating:
42291
{99}%
2 votes
CSX - Wabash River Bridge (DelphI)
Photos
Postcard view of Monon bridge to right and Pittsburg bridge to left
Postcard photo
BH Photo #139316
Description
Another slow point on the Monon Route, at one time a timber bridge, later through truss, and finally a plate girder bridge removed when rail line was abandoned in early 1990's. Also crossed County Road 900 West on West side near Pittsburg and another long ago abandoned County Road on East side of river.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Wabash River on former CSX Transportation in Delphi
- Location
- Delphi, Carroll County, Indiana
- Status
- Demolished
- History
- Built 1949, abandoned in the early 1990's
- Railroads
- - CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Chicago, Indianapolis, & Louisville Railway (CIL)
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Monon Railroad (MON)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Also called
- L&N - Wabash River Bridge (DelphI)
Monon - Wabash River Bridge (DelphI)
L&N - Wabash River Bridge (DelphI)
Monon - Wabash River Bridge (DelphI)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.59448, -86.69826 (decimal degrees)
40°35'40" N, 86°41'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/525531/4493785 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Delphi
- Inventory number
- BH 42291 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 28, 2009: New photo from James Norwood
- April 10, 2009: Added by James Norwood