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Overview: Small wooden bridge with stone pier on CR 162 over Baldwin Creek east of St. Elmo
Location: Chaffee County, Colorado
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1950. The stone pier might be from an earlier railroad bridge.
Design: Steel stringer
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 23.0 ft.
Total length: 23.9 ft.
Deck width: 23.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +38.71167, -106.27000 (decimal degrees)
38°42'42" N, 106°16'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: CO CHA162-10.00 (Colorado off-system bridge number)
BH 11782 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2006): Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 61.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2003): 868

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Baldwin Creek Bridge

Posted October 17, 2006, by David Parsons (adjuster [at] arn [dot] net)

This stone pier was put in by the Denver,South Park and Pacific RR in about 1880. You missed 2 other bridges that were old RR bridges that have been replaced with "modern" bridges. One is on CR162 just east of Mt. Princeton Hot Springs and the other is on CR290 just after it leaves CR162 just west of Deer Valley Guest Ranch. Both of these bridges are on the DSP&P bed and on the original stone. A company called Model Masterpiece had a HO scale modle kit of the Chalk Creek bridge and it is the one on CR290. I remember this a a 2 truss bridge before it was replaced. The county did it to preserve their grants, not because the bridge was bad.

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