KCS - Little Blue River Bridge
Photos
Overview
Photo taken looking east from Little Blue Parkway (formerly Selsa Rd.)
Photo taken by John Kritos in September 2008
BH Photo #124836
Facts
- Overview
- Warren through truss bridge over Little Blue River on Kansas City Southern Railway
- Location
- Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1900
- Builder
- - Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Chicago & Alton Railroad (C&A)
- Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad (GMO)
- Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS)
- Design
- Warren through truss with all verticals
- Dimensions
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Span length: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 150.0 ft.
- Also called
- C&A - Little Blue River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.04526, -94.33759 (decimal degrees)
39°02'43" N, 94°20'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/384247/4322650 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Blue Springs
- Land survey
- 49N-31W-21
- Inventory number
- BH 37449 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 12, 2016: New photos from John Marvig
- September 1, 2012: New photos from Clark Vance
- August 10, 2012: Updated by Clark Vance: Added category "Railroad"
- December 28, 2011: Updated by Clark Vance: Added category "Lassig Bridge & Iron Works"
- December 24, 2011: Updated by Clark Vance: Corrected the railroad company
- September 25, 2008: Updated by John Kritos
- September 20, 2008: Added by John Kritos
Related Bridges
- KCS - East Branch Railroad Bridge (Same project)
Sources
- John Kritos - jmkrito [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
If you go to the township 49, range 31 map of the same North West Publishing Company Atlas of Jackson County 1904, it does say Chicago and Alton crossing the Little Blue at Selsa Station.
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/61179/Township+49+N++...
Missouri pacific is farther north.
An error on the mapmaker's part?
A puzzle for the rail fans: The North West Publishing Company Atlas of Jackson County 1904 shows this as the Missouri Pacific.
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/61154/Jackson+County+...
The KCS did not build this bridge, it was built when the Chicago and Alton built it's line west from Mexico to Kansas City.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mo/jackson/little-blue-kcs/
Different RR shown in the same book. The 1887 Independence topo shows C&A so I'm going to have to write it off as an error in the index map.