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Blue River Trail Blodgett Creek Bridge
Description
Need to find more info on this abandoned UP line that branches off a still-open line just north of Marysville, KS, the abandoned line running on east side of Big Blue River north is now the 11 1/2 mile Big Blue River Trail which ends at Nebraska state line and becomes Chief Standing Bear Trail thereafter.Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over Scotch / Blodgett Creek on Blue River UP Rail-to-Trail
- Location
- Marshall County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1950 by Kansas City Structural Steel Co.
- Builder
- - Kansas City Structural Steel Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
- Railroad
- - Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Timber stringer, paved and graveled, pedestrian railings installed
- Dimensions
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Total length: 100.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- UP Scotch Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.90234, -96.63330 (decimal degrees)
39°54'08" N, 96°37'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/702319/4419599 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 2 S., R. 7 E., Sec. 3
- Elevation
- 1150 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 89065 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
Blue River Trail Blodgett Creek Bridge
Going back to 1894 there doesn't appear to have been a road here, so probably an earlier RR bridge.
Blue River Trail Blodgett Creek Bridge
Nick,
I believe this is the former UP line between Lincoln Nebraska and Marysville. The entire route has since been converted to trail use, and there are quite a number of girder bridges along it.
Blue River Trail Blodgett Creek Bridge
Interesting remnants on W side of bridge of what appears to be an old road bridge
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Yes, hiked the Blue River Trail north out of Marysville half of the 11 miles to Nebraska, turned around just south of Oketo, KS....trail becomes Standing Bear Trail at Nebraska line.....beautiful area.