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Overview

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South side

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Deck view

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View from on the bridge

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Looking downstream

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Hole in deck

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East abutment

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Underneath

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Hip joint

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Peering inside the joint

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Lower chord joint

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Joint from above

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Joint from below

Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Pony truss bridge over Big Creek just off MO 49 on Little Creek Road near Chloride
Location
Iron County, Missouri
Status
Open to one-lane traffic
History
Built ca. 1930
Design
Warren pony truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 89.9 ft.
Total length: 91.8 ft.
Deck width: 17.7 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.46206, -90.68541   (decimal degrees)
37°27'43" N, 90°41'07" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Land survey
T. 32 N., R. 3 E., Sec. 14
Inventory numbers
MO 047-123000.1 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 16505 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21669 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 07/2005)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 32.1 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005)
35

Categories 

Big Creek (Iron County, Missouri) (3)
Iron County, Missouri (12)
Missouri (2,322)
One-lane traffic (307)
Open (21,537)
Owned by county (14,113)
Pony truss (9,381)
Span length 75-100 feet (3,238)
Structurally deficient (10,771)
Total length 75-100 feet (3,315)
Truss (15,705)
Warren truss (690)
Wooden deck (5,164)

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Comments 

Chloride Bridge
Posted April 15, 2008, by Malik

"Is This A Double Decker!?"

Chloride Bridge
Posted March 27, 2008, by Lugnuts (lugnuts969 [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

How did this bridge ever get its name?