Rating:
21295
{80}%
1 vote
Main Street Bridge
Photos
Looking east
Photo taken by Clark Vance in October 2013
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BH Photo #267932
Description
Built by the The Kansas City, Clay County, and St. Joseph Interurban Railway which started construction in 1911 and opened in 1913. Robert P. Woods of Indianapolis, consulting engineer. Operation ceased in March 1933.
Facts
- Overview
- Arch bridge over Fishing River on Main Street in Mosby
- Location
- Mosby, Clay County, Missouri
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1911 as an interurban bridge, converted to road after 1945
- Builder
- - Robert P. Woods of Indianapolis, Indiana (Consulting Engineer)
- Railroads
- - Interurban
- Kansas City, Clay County & St. Joseph Railway (KCCC&StJ)
- Design
- Luten arch
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 191.9 ft.
Deck width: 15.7 ft.
- Also called
- Interurban bridge
KCCC&StJ - Fishing River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.31505, -94.29897 (decimal degrees)
39°18'54" N, 94°17'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/388018/4352543 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kearney
- Land survey
- T. 52 N., R. 31 W., Sec. 17
- Elevation
- 770 ft. above sea level
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 75
- Inventory numbers
- MO 024-293000.2 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 21168 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21295 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of December 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 26.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- November 14, 2019: New photos from John Marvig
- November 10, 2019: Updated by John Marvig: bridge is now closed
- November 4, 2016: Updated by Dave King: Added category "Lattice Railing"
- October 6, 2013: Updated by Clark Vance: Confirmed as Interurban
Sources
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
I visited today and met the man living to the SW. He talked about how the city was not taking care of the bridges or the river. Mosby floods and a lot of the places are vacant or torn down. I can't imagine they have much tax revenue to work with.