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NS - MO-5 Overpass

Chariton County, Missouri

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Wabash Railroad Bridge #465

Panoramic view; looking north from MO Hwy. 5

Photo taken by James Holzmeier in December 2014

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Description 

38.3' TPG span accompanies a 14' concrete slab at this location; both on concrete abutments.

Facts 

Overview
Pony/through plate girder bridge over MO-5 on Norfolk Southern Railway
Location
Chariton County, Missouri
Status
Open to rail traffic
History
Built 1912, Girder added 1929
Railroads
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
Design
Deck plate girder w/concrete piers; includes a pedestrian/wagon underpass topped by a concrete slab span.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 38.3 ft.
Total length: 54.9 ft.
Deck width: 26.5 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.40946, -92.84873   (decimal degrees)
39°24'34" N, 92°50'55" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/513022/4362227 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Salisbury
Land survey
T. 53 N., R. 17 W., Sec. 8
Inventory numbers
RB02101 1
BH 64347 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1912 (830)
Built during 1910s (9,683)
Chariton County, Missouri (121)
Deck girder (5,783)
Girder (10,307)
Have street view (27,081)
Missouri (6,315)
Norfolk Southern Railway (1,956)
 Open (39,995)
Owned by railroad (12,508)
Plate girder (7,991)
Railroad (15,615)
Rigid frame (729)
Span length 25-50 feet (15,714)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,318)
Wabash Railroad (575)

Update Log 

  • October 16, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
  • December 13, 2014: Updated by James Holzmeier: Updated bridge dimensions and build date (per Wabash documents); added images
  • December 1, 2014: New Street View added by James Holzmeier

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Wabash Railroad Bridge #465 - MO Hwy. 5 underpass
Posted December 13, 2014, by James Holzmeier (wabashry [at] gmail [dot] com)

From documents provided by Wabash RR Historical Society President Gary Roe, it appears as though the concrete-slab portion of the bridge might have been the original bridge here; its year of completion was 1912. It was not until 1929 when the actual TPG span over Hwy. 5 was completed.