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HAER photo: Oblique view

These photos from the Historic American Engineering Record show the bridge while it was still in use at its original location

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Overview: Through truss bridge originally spanning Linn Branch Creek in Clinton County near Trimble, but relocated to Parkville
Location: Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri
Status: Open to pedestrians only
History: Built 1898 for the Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City Railway. Abandoned in 1939, but converted into a highway bridge on MO 4 in 1953. Dismantled in 1980 to make room for Smithville Reservoir, but relocated and reassembled in 1987 as a pedestrian bridge
Design: Waddell "A" through truss
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 25, 1991
Also called: Linn Branch Creek Bridge (original name)
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.18583, -94.68225 (decimal degrees)
39°11'09" N, 94°40'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: NRHP 90002173 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 22356 (Bridgehunter.com ID)