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BNSF - Sun River Bridge

Cascade County, Montana

Photos 

Photo taken by Jack Schmidt in July 16, 2013

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BH Photo #272648

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss bridge over Sun River on Railroad (BNSF)
Location
Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1928
Builder
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1899 Span)
Railroads
- BNSF Railway (BNSF)
- Burlington Northern Railroad (BN)
- Great Northern Railway (GN)
Design
Warren through truss
Dimensions
Span length: 34.1 ft.
Total length: 34.1 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+47.49196, -111.33385   (decimal degrees)
47°29'31" N, 111°20'02" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
12/474852/5259890 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Southwest Great Falls
Inventory number
BH 58018 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

BNSF Railway (1,590)
Beam (16,960)
Built 1899 (433)
Built 1928 (1,227)
Built during 1920s (10,284)
Burlington Northern Railroad (508)
Cascade County, Montana (56)
Great Falls, Montana (18)
Great Northern Railway (396)
Have street view (29,266)
Keystone Bridge Co. (77)
Montana (847)
 Open (41,012)
Owned by railroad (13,585)
Railroad (16,543)
Riveted (2,572)
Span length 25-50 feet (16,277)
Steel stringer (6,746)
Through truss (17,263)
Total length 25-50 feet (11,561)
Truss (36,026)
Warren through truss (1,713)
Warren through truss with sub-panels (75)
Warren truss (7,051)

Update Log 

  • May 18, 2017: New photos from David Jones
  • January 9, 2014: New photos from Jack Schmidt
  • September 15, 2013: Added by Luke Harden

Sources 

  • Luke
  • Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
  • David Jones - david2jpix [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Comments 

BNSF - Sun River Bridge
Posted March 24, 2020, by John Marvig (marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com)

It looks like at least one of these truss spans was moved to this location, and quite possibly both. There’s an identical span to the pin connected span crossing the Dearborn River in Lewis and Clark county.

BNSF - Sun River Bridge
Posted May 18, 2017, by David Jones (david2jpix [at] yahoo [dot] com)

The spans of this bridge are different. The northern span seems to be pin connected while the southern span is riveted. The date on the southern abutment is 1928 but the builder's plaque on the southern span, the riveted one, is 1899. Was the southern span moved to this location? NBI says the bridge was built in 1928.