Beardstown Bridge
Photos
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Portal Photo taken by Bill Burmaster |
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Driving across Photo taken by Bill Burmaster |
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Photo taken by Nathan Morton in August 2007 |
Map
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Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over the Illinois River on US 67/IL 100 at Beardstown
- Status
- Open to two-lane traffic
- Future prospects
- IDOT plans to replace this bridge with a tied-arch bridge in the next 3-5 years when funding becomes available.
- History
- Built 1955; rehabilitated 1985
- Design
- Cantilevered Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 539.9 ft.
Total length: 3,623.0 ft.
Deck width: 27.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.4 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.01474, -90.44619 (decimal degrees)
40°00'53" N, 90°26'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/717958/4432517 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Beardstown
- Inventory numbers
- IL 009-0001 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 15057 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 06/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 51.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 6,800
Update Log
- August 25, 2009: Updated by Kim Harvey: Future Prospects
- November 7, 2008: New photo from Nathan Morton
- January 9, 2006: Posted photos from Bill Burmaster
Sources
- Bill Burmaster
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- IDOT Beardstown Bridge Project
- Kim Harvey
Comments
According to IDOT It’ll cost an estimated $187 million to build the proposed tied arch bridge for US-67.
http://cautionmagazine.org/us67/Map_3f.html
I assume the proposed bridge is 4 lane. Of course the bridge isn’t currently funded, and I wonder how much cheaper it would be to build the tied-arch span as a 2-lane next to the existing bridge and keep the old bridge for the other 2 lanes of a 4-lane US-67?
I am not positive on this fact, but I believe the Beardstown Bridge was built by the American Bridge Company. Is this correct? Also, my mother was brought to Beardstown in 1955, by my grandfather, who was a Metallurgist and a construction worker for the Beardstown Bridge. Thanks.
Ryan F.