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Overview: Lost skewed Pratt through truss over the KCS Railroad on St. Louis Avenue
Location: Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri
Status: Replaced by new bridge
History: Built 1914; replaced 2003
Design: Skewed, riveted, 7-panel Pratt through truss
Dimensions: Total length: 163.0 ft.
Deck width: 41.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.4 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.10505, -94.59393 (decimal degrees)
39°06'18" N, 94°35'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/362179/4329643 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey: T. 49 N., R. 33 W., Sec. 6
USGS topographic map: Kansas City
Inventory numbers: MoDOT S-030B12 (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 25398 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 21718 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2004): Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 39.3 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2005): 5,200

Update Log

August 24, 2008: New photos from James Baughn

Sources

James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
HAER MO-95 - St. Louis Avenue Viaduct, Spanning Kansas City Terminal Railroad at Beardsley Road & Bluff Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, MO

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St. Louis Avenue Bridge

Posted September 14, 2008, by Local

Drove over the new bridge last week. It appears that the city tried to keep the classic look of the truss bridge, as the new bridge has a full-size pony-truss type metal decoration on each side.