Rating:
67853
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UP - Crooked River Bridge
Photos
1931 Photo shortly after construction was finished
scanned from Engineering News-Record page 605
Scan provided by Paul Hamby
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BH Photo #326161
Description
In 1931, the Rock Island realigned and upgraded its Trenton, MO, to Kansas City, MO, line with 76 miles of new and upgraded tracks costing 13.5 million dollars. As a part of the new construction project, a section of joint MILW/RI double track was built between Polo and Lawson. The original MILW single track DPG bridge over the Crooked River was replaced at this time with a much larger double track bridge just upstream on the new joint line.
The new bridge is still in service to this day with the Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific railroads and is in amazing condition. This was the largest bridge constructed on the new route, a double-track Pratt deck truss with concrete arch span approaches. It is much larger than the old MILW DPG bridge it replaced, which lay to the south in the flood plain. The original MILW alignment can still be made out running parallel to the new line between Polo and Lawson, and the old bridge's piers and abutments remain at the former Crooked River bridge site near Elmira.
Facts
- Overview
- Subdived Warren deck truss bridge over Crooked River on Union Pacific / Canadian Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Ray County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1931 by the Rock Island Railroad
- Railroads
- - Canadian Pacific Railway (CP)
- Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad (MILW)
- Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRIP (1866-1920); RI (1920-1975) ROCK (1975-1980))
- Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad (DME)
- I&M Rail Link (IMRL)
- Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad (ICE)
- Soo Line Railroad (SOO)
- Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- 150ft double-track subdivided Warren deck truss span with concrete arch approaches, rail level is 84ft above water, total bridge length is approximately 460ft long. Bridge has a ballasted deck.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
Total length: 460.0 ft.
- Also called
- RI - Crooked River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.50990, -94.14886 (decimal degrees)
39°30'36" N, 94°08'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/401234/4373992 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Elmira
- Land survey
- T. 54 N., R. 29 W., Sec. 10
- Inventory number
- BH 67853 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 1, 2022: New photo from Luke
- May 16, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added categories "6-panel truss", "Riveted"
- May 15, 2022: New photo from Dylan VanAntwerp
- April 15, 2022: Updated by Dylan VanAntwerp: Added categories "Ballasted Deck", "Soo Line Railroad", "Canadian Pacific Railway", "Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad", "Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern Railroad", "I&M Rail Link"
- May 31, 2015: Added by Paul Hamby
Sources
- Dylan VanAntwerp - dylan_vanantwerp [at] live [dot] com
- Luke