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I-64 Wabash River Bridge
Photos
Looking south from the Grayville Railroad Bridge
Photo taken by Nathan Morton in December 08
BH Photo #130721
Facts
- Overview
- Stringer bridge over Wabash River on I-64 south of Grayville
- Location
- Gibson County, Indiana, and White County, Illinois
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Future prospects
- Bridge slated for replacement according to WSIL report July 1, 2013
- History
- Built 1967
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 160.1 ft.
Total length: 2,705.2 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Deck width: 30.2 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.22861, -87.98667 (decimal degrees)
38°13'43" N, 87°59'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/413641/4231640 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Harmony
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 000097000321244 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 38399 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 1, 2013: Updated by Kim Harvey: Bridge slated for replacement according to WSIL
- October 13, 2010: New photos from Richard Dale
- January 4, 2010: Updated by Kim Harvey: merged data with NBI
- January 4, 2010: New photo from Richard Dale
- December 21, 2008: Added by Nathan Morton
Sources
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Richard Dale
- Kim Harvey
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I've read an article that the bridge piers had been sinking in the river or something like that. Thats what mainly caused the railroad bridge upstream to get washed out. So a new I-64 bridge across a river of this size should out to be a signature bridge. Doubt that will happen.