Photos
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Overview |
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North side |
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Deck view |
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East span |
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East abutment |
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Underneath |
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Plaque |
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East Approach Photo taken by David Backlin in April 2008 |
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West Approach Photo taken by David Backlin in April 2008 |
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Close-up of East Abutment Photo taken by David Backlin in April 2008 |
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East Arch with Pedestrian Path Below Photo taken by David Backlin in April 2008 |
Facts
- Overview
- Five-span concrete arch bridge over Roubidoux Creek on MO 17 in Waynesville
- Location
- Pulaski County, Missouri
- Status
- Open to two-lane traffic
- Future prospects
- Safe for now
- History
- Built 1923; widened 1939
- Builder
- - Koss Construction Co. (Contractor)
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 80.0 ft.
Total length: 415.9 ft.
Deck width: 36.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.82801, -92.20538 (decimal degrees)
37°49'41" N, 92°12'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/569928/4187030 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 36 N., R. 12 W., Sec. 24
- USGS topographic map
- Waynesville
- Inventory numbers
- MoDOT G-455A (Missouri Dept. of Transportation bridge number)
MONBI 4647 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22373 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 11/2007)
- 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: 78.5 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
- 9,014
Sources
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
- Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory
Comments
I have a c.1920 real photo postcard of the iron bridge that this bridge replaced. If you would like a 600 dpi JPEG of it, please let me know.
p.s., I have other great scans of photo postcards of other Pulaski County bridges if you are interested.
The bridge is in the middle of the old part of town. If you travel West on Bus 66 past the county jail you can't miss it.
I lived 4 miles west of Waynesville from about Apr 1934 to May 1936. When we, my sisters along with Nina & Stanley Bowling had a nickle or dime we would walk to Waynesville and spend it on candy.At the most this would be a couple of times a year. We carried our lunch in a 1/2 gal Karo Syrup pail and drinking water in another one. At noon we would go down to the Roubidoux by the bridge and eat. After we finished our lunch we would walk back home. Our post office address at the time was Buckhorn. I lived about 1 mile east of Buckhorn and the Bowlings were about 1/2 mile east.
Its at the west end of town.
In layman's terms, just where is this bridge located? Is it in the town of Waynesville? I don't remember seeing this bridge.