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THI&E - Knightstown Bridge

Henry County, Indiana

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Through truss bridge over Big Blue River on Terre Haute, Indianapolis, & Eastern Traction Co.
Location
Knightstown, Henry County, Indiana
Status
Removed but not replaced
Builder
- Pan American Bridge Co. of New Castle, Indiana
Railroads
- Indiana Railroad (IR)
- Interurban
- Terre Haute, Indianapolis, & Eastern Traction Co. (THI&E)
Design
Pinned Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.80044, -85.52007   (decimal degrees)
39°48'02" N, 85°31'12" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/626696/4406656 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Knightstown
Inventory number
BH 63089 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Big Blue River (Indiana) (20)
Henry County, Indiana (72)
Indiana (5,111)
Indiana Railroad (10)
Interurban (1,012)
Knightstown, Indiana (5)
Lost (29,082)
 Pan American Bridge Co. of New Castle, Indiana (54)
Pratt through truss (6,129)
Pratt truss (10,405)
Railroad (16,518)
Terre Haute, Indianapolis, & Eastern Traction Co. (16)
Through truss (17,206)
Truss (35,956)

Update Log 

  • January 14, 2022: Updated by Luke: Removed category "Indiana Rail Road (1986)"; Replaced with correct interurban category "Indiana Railroad"
  • September 21, 2014: Added by Luke

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UTC - Big Blue River Bridge (Knightstown)
Posted September 24, 2014, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This was actually a through truss built by Pan American Bridge Company out of New Castle. It is mentioned in their Golden Anniversary Booklet they published in 1952. I believe that a picture of it does exist but I can't remember where I saw it.

The Honey Bee Line (IN&T) ran to the North of here.

UTC - Big Blue River Bridge (Knightstown)
Posted September 23, 2014, by Luke

After doing a bit of Googling, turns out that you are indeed correct.

I'll fix the categories

UTC - Big Blue River Bridge (Knightstown)
Posted September 23, 2014, by Ed Hollowell (erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com)

Not 100% sure but think this line was THI&E. The UTC went east from Indianapolis through Maxwell, Shirley, Carthage, Mt. Lawn etc. to New Castle and left New Castle heading south to Dunreth where it joined the THI&E line from Indianapolis to Richmond along US 40.

They were all merged into Indiana Railroad (IR, Indiana Rail Road- IRR is different) in the 1920's.