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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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HAER photo: Portal view

Map 

Vicinity Map

Vicinity map

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Facts 

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)

Categories 

19th Century (1,704)
Built 1898 (74)
Built during 1890s (642)
HAER documented (282)
Kansas City, Missouri (51)
Missouri (2,325)
NR-listed (1,472)
Open to pedestrians (361)
Pin-connected (413)
Platte County, Missouri (20)
Relocated (121)
Through truss (5,175)
Truss (15,706)
Waddell "A" truss (3)

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