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LS&MS - Swan Creek Bridge (Old)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Swan Creek on LS & MS RR
- Location
- Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built in 1869
- Builders
- - E.W. Ensign of Buffalo, New York (Substructure)
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (superstructure)
- Railroad
- - Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad (LS&MS)
- Design
- 10 panel, vertical endpost, Keystone Column, 2 track, Whipple through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 112.0 ft.
Total length: 118.0 ft.
- Also called
- Michigan Southern & Indiana Northern RR Swan Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.63827, -83.56214 (decimal degrees)
41°38'18" N, 83°33'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/286604/4612786 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 91363 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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Note the trussed floor beams!