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UP - Raven Stream Bridge
Description
When built, this bridge featured the largest plate girders fabricated west of the Mississippi.
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over Raven Stream on Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Scott County, Minnesota
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1898
- Builder
- - Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Railroads
- - Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway (MSTL)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Through Plate Girder
- Dimensions
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Span length: 73.8 ft.
Total length: 73.8 ft.
- Also called
- M&STL - Raven Stream Bridge
M&STL - Bridge #44
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.62393, -93.58227 (decimal degrees)
44°37'26" N, 93°34'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/453809/4941340 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Prague
- Inventory number
- BH 53738 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 2, 2012: Added by John Marvig