Rating:
No votes cast

SKOL - Arkansas River Bridge (Oxford)

Sumner County, Kansas

Photos 

Whats Left

A view of the East approach, there was 1 more deck girder before the Through truss started.

Photo taken by Robert

Enlarge

BH Photo #169491

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Pratt through truss bridge over Arkansas River on former SKOL Railroad, ex-ATSF
Location
Oxford, Sumner County, Kansas
Status
Destroyed by flooding
History
Built 1902, Destroyed by flooding ca. 2009
Railroads
- Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF)
- South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL)
Design
2 x 150' Pratt Through Truss
2 x 50' Concrete Deck Girder
215' Timber Pile Trestle
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 645.0 ft.
Also called
ATSF - Arkansas River Bridge (Oxford)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.26995, -97.16277   (decimal degrees)
37°16'12" N, 97°09'46" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
14/662897/4126401 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Oxford
Inventory number
BH 38696 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arkansas River (118)
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (478)
Ballasted Deck (154)
Beam (17,108)
Built 1902 (592)
Built during 1900s (7,737)
Concrete girder (1,082)
Deck girder (6,398)
Destroyed by flood (748)
Girder (11,346)
Have street view (29,894)
Kansas (3,276)
Lost (29,982)
Lost 2009 (360)
 Lost during 2000s (4,440)
Owned by railroad (13,727)
Oxford, Kansas (3)
Pratt through truss (6,228)
Pratt truss (10,535)
Railroad (16,665)
South Kansas & Oklahoma Railroad (30)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,495)
Sumner County, Kansas (35)
Through truss (17,852)
Timber stringer (4,390)
Total length 500-1000 feet (3,134)
Truss (36,750)

Update Log 

  • August 13, 2021: New photo from Luke
  • April 16, 2018: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Added design type and dimensions
  • September 14, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
  • January 26, 2009: Added by Robert Elder

Sources 

  • Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Robert - gin-rob [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
  • Dana and Kay Klein
  • Dylan VanAntwerp - dylan_vanantwerp [at] live [dot] com
  • Luke
Post a comment here

Comments 

SKOL - Arkansas River Bridge (Oxford)
Posted October 27, 2021, by Bryce Hale (showmestarfire90 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Dylan,the Wellington-Chanute,KS line was part of the ATSF's Eastern Division which is why it isn't on your track chart. This was one of three lines sold to the SKOL on December 28th, 1990.

SKOL - Arkansas River Bridge (Oxford)
Posted April 16, 2018, by John Marvig (marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com)

I have the build dates of this structure in my records. I will post them. To me, the bridge appears to be a standardized span

SKOL - Arkansas River Bridge (Oxford)
Posted April 16, 2018, by Dylan VanAntwerp (dylan_vanantwerp [at] live [dot] com)

The bridge was lost somewhere between 2008-2010, as historic aerials has aerial imagery of the bridge still intact that is dated to 2008. The bridge is gone in the 2010 image. It definitely looks to have been a flood victim, judging by how badly one of the main piers was pushed over. This line seems to have been sold off to the present day SKOL Railroad quite a long time ago. A 1986 ATSF Middle Division Track Chart (KS & OK) does not list this line under ATSF ownership.

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Bridge
Posted July 13, 2010, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Based on the photographs, it appears that this bridge might have been a flood victim. I know that the area, along with other regions of southeast Kansas, had a disastrous flood in 2007.