Photos
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View from a distance |
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View from northwest |
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View from southwest |
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View from northeast |
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North portal |
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South portal |
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Standing on bridge |
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Close-up of deck |
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Behind north portal |
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Middle joint |
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Upper chord hip joint |
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Underneath |
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Close-up of underside |
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North portal from side |
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North approach |
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North abutment |
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Piers from below |
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Lower joint |
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Builder's plaque 1911 Built by Stupp Bro's Bridge & Iron Company St Louis Mo |
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"Class B" marker |
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"Lackawanna" steel imprint |
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Plaque mounted on new bridge Photo taken by James Baughn in November 2008 |
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Remaining girders Photo taken by James Baughn in November 2008 |
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Ugly replacement bridge Photo taken by James Baughn in November 2008 |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over St. Francis River downstream from Wappapello Dam on CR 517
- Location
- Wayne County, Missouri
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1911 by Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co.; replaced 2008
- Builder
- - Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
- Design
- Pin-connected, 10-panel Pennsylvania through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 209.9 ft.
Total length: 242.0 ft.
Deck width: 13.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.5 ft.
- Also called
- Davis Camp Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.92824, -90.26486 (decimal degrees)
36°55'42" N, 90°15'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/743616/4090406 (zone/easting/northing)
- Land survey
- T. 26 N., R. 7 E., Sec. 2
- USGS topographic map
- Wappapello
- Inventory numbers
- MO 111-069000.5 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 14495 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22814 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 01/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 17.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 100
Update Log
- December 17, 2008: New photos from James Baughn
- August 14, 2008: Updated by Kim Harvey: updated status on bridge
- March 23, 2005: Posted new photos
Sources
- Kim Harvey - ayrlieofremora [at] yahoo [dot] com
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
Comments
Well James at least you know now that the county removed the plaques and they were not stolen.
this bridge has been torn down and is being replaced by a modern concrete girder bridge
Yes, the pictures on here are copyrighted.
However, I do belive the webmaster has some for sale at lulu.com, I think.
Are the pictures of the Wapppello Bridge copyrighted and who took them.