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UP - 120th Street "Awful Tunnel"
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Closed-spandrel arch bridge over 120th Street on Union Pacific Railroad
- Location
- Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1905; Replaced 1993
- Builders
- - James Keys of Omaha, Nebraska (Design)
- Kilpatrick Brothers & Collins Contracting Co. of Beatrice, Nebraska (Erection)
- Railroad
- - Union Pacific Railroad (UP)
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Span length: 29.9 ft.
Total length: 29.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.22144, -96.10074 (decimal degrees)
41°13'17" N, 96°06'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 14/743027/4567393 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ralston
- Inventory number
- BH 74815 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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The three of them were really narrow, so as automobiles got bigger, driving through them, especially during traffic, made them "awful", as evidenced by this picture of the one on 84th Street: https://bridgehunter.com/photos/27/35/273580-L.jpg
The nickname was also used in advertising for Mangelsen's.