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CN - Rt53 Viaduct
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Rt 53 on Canadian National Railway
- Location
- Imlay City, Lapeer County, Michigan
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Builder
- - Walbridge and Aldinger Co.
- Railroads
- - Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Grand Trunk Western Railroad (GTW)
- Design
- Girder and Floorbeam system
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 50.9 ft.
Total length: 102.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.02316, -83.07171 (decimal degrees)
43°01'23" N, 83°04'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/331199/4765469 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Imlay City
- Inventory numbers
- MINEW 05317 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2011 and later)
MINBI 44144031000X010 (Michigan bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory 2010 and before)
BH 75746 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 11, 2020: New Street View added by Geoff Hubbs
- February 20, 2017: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: NBI Data
Sources
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Geoff Hubbs
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mi/lapeer/bh75746/
Both this bridge and the Ashmun Street bridge in Sault Ste. Marie (BH 20006) are products of the National Recovery Project, one of the multiple New Deal entities that emerged in effort to reverse the Great Depression.
I'm a bit at a loss for how to account for that particular project on here, though, because it's a little less straightforward compared to the Works Progress and Public Works Administrations. Plus, the National Recovery Administration, which would otherwise be my best guess, was declared unconstitutional in 1935, thus that entity lasted for much less time than the WPA and PWA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Industrial_Recovery_A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administrati...