Rating:
34935
{95}%
2 votes
WSOR - Goette Road Overpass
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)
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