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UP - Kansas River Bridge #3
Description
This bridge has a newer concrete beam approach on the west end. The east end widens and there is evidence that there was a switch on the bridge and a second track exiting at the portal.Facts
- Overview
- Four-span through truss bridge over Kansas River on the Union Pacific Railroad just north of I-70
- Location
- Kansas City, Wyandotte County, Kansas
- Status
- Open to single-track railroad traffic
- History
- Built 1904 to replace previous bridge destroyed by 1903 flood
- Builders
- - Kahman-McMurray Co. of Kansas City, Missouri
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. of Leavenworth, Kansas
- Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW)
- Kansas City Northwestern Railway (KCNW)
- Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- From north to south:
One pony plate girder span
Three pin-connected, 8-panel Pratt through trusses
One riveted, flared and skewed Pratt through truss (west side has 9 panels, east side 8) - Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 200.0 ft.
Total length: 960.0 ft.
- Also called
- Maple Leaf Bridge
Two Rivers bridge
CGW - Kansas River Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.11388, -94.61409 (decimal degrees)
39°06'50" N, 94°36'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/360453/4330654 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kansas City
- Land survey
- T. 11 S., R. 25 E., Sec. 10
- Inventory number
- BH 18695 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 27, 2021: Updated by Robert Elder: Added category "Schaub Truss"
- October 11, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
- September 12, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- September 12, 2016: New photos from Clark Vance
- September 11, 2016: Updated by Luke: Added builders + historical imagery
- September 11, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
- September 5, 2016: Updated by John Marvig: Added information
- December 22, 2013: Updated by Chris Knight: Added Alt Name Maple Leaf Bridge as shown on 1907 map
- April 15, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Chicago Great Western Railway", "Chicago & North Western Railway", "Kansas City Northwestern Railway", "Missouri Pacific Railroad"
- March 31, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Added Builder
- April 24, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
- April 23, 2008: Updated by Max Johnson
- July 3, 2006: Posted new photos
Sources
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- 1904 Railroad Gazette - Construction information
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Luke
Comments
Kansas River Railroad Bridge No. 1
This bridge was constructed by the Kansas City North Western Railroad. The first bridge at this location was destroyed in 1903 by a flood, and a replacement was contracted for in July of that year. [Source - I.E. Quastler, Missouri Pacific Northwest: A History of the Kansas City Northwestern Railroad, 1994]
The brige was used by the Missouri Pacific and the Chicago Great Western, and is still in use by the Union Pacific.
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A walkway for railroad workers was added in 1999.