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UP - Neosho River Bridge (Erie)
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Photo taken by Robert Brock
License: Released into public domain
BH Photo #277714
Description
I came across this bridge doing a satellite search of the area and searching for geocaches. This would appear to be a Union Pacific Railroad Bridge. This track mainly supports South bound movements of trains, the North bound tracks run about 30 miles west of here. I was lucky the day I came out to get this that a SB train passed just as I got there, with this in hand I knew I had about 15 minutes before the next train to grab photos. The final photo I loaded would appear to be an old bridge, perhaps the bridge prior to this one being built in 1941 in the river water below. There is a bridge just south of this one that is concrete in construction dated 1928. This rail line would have originally belonged to the Missouri, Kansas an Texas(KATY) RR. A 1906 map shows this railroad at that time as well.Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Neosho River
- Location
- Neosho County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroads
- - Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (MKT)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 190.0 ft.
Total length: 345.0 ft.
- Also called
- MoPac - Neosho River Bridge (Erie)
MKT - Neosho River Bridge (Erie) - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.53738, -95.23342 (decimal degrees)
37°32'15" N, 95°14'00" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/302673/4156832 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Erie
- Elevation
- 845 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 60114 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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I will know more on this bridge by the end of this week including length and some more photos.