Rating:
42719
{97}%
2 votes
MON - Paoli Viaduct
Description
Originally built of wood construction and replaced. This bridge connected the Monon's mainline at Orleans with the resort towns of West Baden and French Lick. Abandoned in 1982 and removed. 85 feet high.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Lost River on former Monon Railroad in Paoli
- Location
- Paoli, Orange County, Indiana
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built 1904, removed in 1982
- Builders
- - Ralph Modjeski of Bochnia, Poland
- Wisconsin Bridge & Iron Co. of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Railroads
- - Chicago, Indianapolis, & Louisville Railway (CIL)
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Monon Railroad (MON)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
-
Total length: 870.0 ft.
- Also called
- LN - Paoli Viaduct
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.56672, -86.46250 (decimal degrees)
38°34'00" N, 86°27'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/546825/4268833 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Paoli
- Inventory number
- BH 42719 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 21, 2020: New photo from Tony Dillon
- December 17, 2017: Updated by Luke: Added builder
- August 25, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Railroad", "Louisville & Nashville Railroad", "Monon Railroad"
- August 25, 2012: New photos from Jacob P. Bernard
- June 6, 2009: Added by James Norwood