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Sweetser Switch Trail - Pipe Creek Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Pipe Creek again on Sweetser Switch Trail(nee Conrail, Penn Central, Pennsylvania Railroads and others)
- Location
- Grant County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Formerly carried a double tracked railroad line that ran from Chicago(via Logansport) to Columbus, Ohio and points East. Tracks taken up in early to mid 1980's. Extension of trail installed in or about 2004 which included this bridge.
- Railroads
- - Conrail (CR)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Span length: 54.0 ft.
Total length: 54.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- Conrail - Pipe Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.57228, -85.80598 (decimal degrees)
40°34'20" N, 85°48'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/601066/4491962 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sweetser
- Inventory number
- BH 45001 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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