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WSOR - Goette Road Overpass

Sauk County, Wisconsin

Photos 

View Of Bridge From Highway, Looking West

Photo taken by Martin Stupich, June 17, 1987 for HAER

View photos at Library of Congress

BH Photo #119343

Map 

Street View 

Description 

Build date provided by C&NW bridge records at the Chicago & North Western Railway Historical Society archives

Facts 

Overview
Stone arch bridge over Halweg Road on Wisconsin & Southern Railroad
Location
Sauk County, Wisconsin
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1878, Widened 1896
Railroads
- Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (WSOR)
Design
A rock-faced, sandstone arch bridge with a single arch that springs 2 feet above grade and rises 12 feet over a span of 24 feet. There are step-staired wing walls on both sides. The elongated keystone is 2 feet in height. It is Wisconsin's earliest known single-vault, stone-arch railroad bridge. (The oldest stone arch bridge in the state is the Tiffany Stone Bridge in Turtle, Wisconsin.)
Dimensions
Span length: 41.0 ft.
Total length: 41.0 ft.
Deck width: 36.0 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
CNW Goette Road Overpass
C&NW Bridge # 344
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.39303, -89.68209   (decimal degrees)
43°23'35" N, 89°40'56" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/282781/4807955 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Baraboo
Inventory number
BH 34935 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (8,416)
Arch (12,662)
Built 1878 (106)
Built during 1870s (1,278)
Chicago & North Western Railway (1,448)
Deck arch (11,898)
Have street view (28,926)
NR-eligible (4,110)
Open (40,970)
 Owned by state (16,567)
Railroad (16,464)
Sauk County, Wisconsin (67)
Span length 25-50 feet (16,232)
Stone arch (3,285)
Total length 25-50 feet (11,515)
Wisconsin (1,711)
Wisconsin & Southern Railroad (99)

Update Log 

  • March 22, 2019: Updated by John Marvig: Added information from C&NW Bridge Records
  • February 24, 2017: New photos from John Marvig
  • April 4, 2015: Updated by John Marvig: Bridge is now state owned
  • June 17, 2014: New photos from John Marvig
  • January 12, 2011: New photos from Eric Hanson
  • June 22, 2009: Updated by J.R. Manning
  • June 4, 2009: Updated by J.R. Manning: Corrected GPS coordinates, location and added to "Railroad" category
  • August 2, 2008: New photos from J.R. Manning

Sources 

  • HAER WI-39 - Chicago & North Western Railway Bridge No. 344, Spanning Goette Road, Merrimac vicinity, Sauk County, WI
  • J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
  • Eric Hanson
  • Luke
  • John Marvig - marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com

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