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44052
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Midland Valley Canadian River Bridge
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Midland Valley Railroad Bridge (Abandoned)
Crossing the Canadian River, North of Whitefield and Southeast of Briartown, OK.
Photo taken by John Cross in February 2010
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BH Photo #154596
Description
5 Span Parker Through Truss plus approaches, part of the abandoned Midland Valley Railroad. This Railroad bridge (Crossing) shows up on maps that I have seen as early as 1904 & 1905. The name plate states 1907. Near by (to the NW) Briartown had a switch and loading dock prior to 1910 but a depot wasn't added until 1911 when forced by the Corp. Commission.
Missouri Pacific bought Midland Valley in 1964, combining it into their Texas & Pacific brand. Now owned by Union Pacific.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned parker through truss bridge over Canadian River on Abandoned Midland Valley Railroad
- Location
- Muskogee County, Oklahoma, and Haskell County, Oklahoma
- Status
- Abandoned
- History
- Built 1907 by the Pennsylvania Steel Co. Steelton PA
- Builder
- - Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Midland Valley Railroad (MV)
- Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP)
- Texas & Pacific Railway (T&P)
- Design
- 5 main Parker through spans, NW trestle approach and SE approach is missing and was likely a trestle approach as well.
- Also called
- MoPac - Canadian River Bridge
T&P - Canadian River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.28187, -95.21117 (decimal degrees)
35°16'55" N, 95°12'40" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/298904/3906543 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Stigler West
- Land survey
- T. 9 N., R. 20 E., Sec. 5
- Elevation
- 490 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 44052 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 14, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added builder
- February 7, 2010: Added by John Cross
Sources
- John Cross - jcrossiam [at] gmail [dot] com
- Luke
Here is a photo from the bridge looking south along the line