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BNSF - Sun River Bridge
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
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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)
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
Comments
BNSF - Sun River Bridge
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.
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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.