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CSX - Kankakee River Bridge

Newton County, Indiana, and Lake County, Indiana

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CSX - Kankakee River Bridge

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Photo taken by Bob Kalal in April 2021

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #496058

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Facts 

Overview
Pony/through plate girder bridge over Kankakee River on CSX Railroad
Location
Shelby, Newton County, Indiana, and Lake County, Indiana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1956
Railroads
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Family Lines System (FL)
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Monon Railroad (MON)
- Seaboard System Railroad (SBD)
Design
Pony plate girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 240.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.18270, -87.34209   (decimal degrees)
41°10'58" N, 87°20'32" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/471309/4559095 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Shelby
Inventory number
BH 67597 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1956 (332)
Built during 1950s (4,013)
CSX Railroad (1,770)
Family Lines System (80)
Girder (11,221)
Indiana (5,110)
Kankakee River (42)
Lake County, Indiana (89)
Louisville & Nashville Railroad (293)
Monon Railroad (29)
 Newton County, Indiana (24)
Open (41,012)
Owned by railroad (13,564)
Plate girder (8,769)
Railroad (16,512)
Seaboard System Railroad (107)
Shelby, Indiana (1)
Span length 75-100 feet (6,674)
Through girder (4,210)
Total length 175-250 feet (4,519)

Update Log 

  • April 21, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • May 16, 2015: Added by John Marvig

Sources 

  • John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Geoff Hubbs
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Comments 

CSX - Kankakee River Bridge
Posted March 24, 2022, by Geoff Hubbs (geoffrey [dot] hubbs [at] att [dot] net)

Sorry Mr. Rainford but I'm pretty sure the current and predecessor railroads are correct.

CSX - Kankakee River Bridge
Posted March 24, 2022, by Tom Rainford (trainford308 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This bridge is Norfolk Southern bridge, not CSX.

CSX - Kankakee River Bridge
Posted April 19, 2021, by Bob Kalal (k [dot] kalal [at] comcast [dot] net)

was here last Saturday. 2021-04-17