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Thunder Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Big Pipe Creek on CR 125 W
- Location
- Miami County, Indiana
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1924; replaced 1999
- Builders
- - Berne Welch of Peru, Indiana (Designer and Engineer)
- F.N. Hoffman (Contractor)
- Pan American Bridge Co. of New Castle, Indiana (likely fabricator)
- Design
- Pratt Through truss, 7 Panel Riveted.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 126.0 ft.
Total length: 133.9 ft.
Deck width: 17.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 18.0 ft.
- Also called
- Pipe Creek CR 125W Bridge
Old County Bridge #99 - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.66838, -86.09573 (decimal degrees)
40°40'06" N, 86°05'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/576430/4502338 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bunker Hill
- Average daily traffic (as of 2011)
- 425
- Inventory numbers
- INNBI 5200078 (Indiana bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
Miami County Bridge B-99
BH 39454 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of May 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 87 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- April 19, 2017: Updated by Luke: Added common name per forum comment.
- March 10, 2010: New photos from James Norwood
- February 8, 2009: Added by James Baughn
Comments
Thunder Bridge
My coworker at the highway dept. Earl Snyder saved the two plaques from this bridge then I watched over them for many years ! The county still has them but hopefully I’ll get them displayed at the museum someday !
County Road 125 West Big Pipe Creek Bridge
This bridge is identified as B-99 in the county bridge inventory and was locally referred to as "Thunder Bridge" due to the wood plank deck "thundering" as vehicles crossed the structure.
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Love these Scott, thanks for sharing.
I have no doubt that the bridge was fabricated by Pan American Bridge Company out of New Castle as that is their plaque design. It was nearly identical to the Indiana Bridge Company plaque except Pan Am used the little symbol between the commissioner names and the contractor/fabricator name. I've always had a theory that a man named Eugene Runyan designed the plaques because he worked for IBCo and then left for Pan Am after it was formed in 1902. Mr. Hoffman, the contractor, used Pan Am to fabricate other bridge superstructures for him as well.