, Minnesota

Railroad Bridges in , Minnesota

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Random Bridges

CPKC Wild Rice River Bridge

This deck plate girder bridge had steel stringer approaches added at a later date

Mahnomen, Mahnomen County, Minnesota

Owner: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited

Status: Open to Traffic

Built ca. 1901

Unknown

for

Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad

Design:
40' deck plate girder and 6-28' steel stringer

Description:
Deck plate girder bridge over Wild Rice River

Significance:

Local

Abandoned Mud Creek Bridge (Quamba)

(Great Northern Railway Bridge #54.2)

This through plate girder bridge crosses Mud Creek alongside Minnesota Highway 23

Quamba, Kanabec County, Minnesota

Owner: Kanabec County Regional Railroad Authority

Status: Abandoned

Built 1899

Lassig Bridge & Iron Works of Chicago

for

Great Northern Railway

Design:
72' through plate girder

Description:
Through plate girder bridge over Mud Creek

Significance:

Local

CPKC I-35E Bridge (North)

(Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Bridge #L-308)

This deck plate girder bridge crosses I-35E south of St. Clair Avenue

St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota

Owner: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited

Status: In Use

Built 1966

Unknown

for

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad

Design:
2-95' deck plate girders

Description:
Deck plate girder bridge over Interstate 35E

Significance:

Minimal

MNNR Como Avenue Bridge

This steel stringer bridge crosses Como Avenue immediately west of Minnesota Highway 280

St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota

Owner: Minnesota Commercial Railroad

Status: In Use

Built 1936

Unknown

for

Minnesota Transfer Railway

Design:
1-50', 2-18' steel stringers

Description:
Steel stringer bridge over Como Avenue

Significance:

Local

C&NW Cottonwood River Bridge

(Chicago & North Western Railway Bridge #610)

This quadrangular lattice through truss bridge carries an abandoned Chicago & North Western Railway line over the Cottonwood River east of Sanborn

Sanborn, Brown County, Minnesota

Owner: Minnesota Department of Transportation (MNDOT)

Status: Abandoned

Built 1910

American Bridge Company of New York (Detroit Plant)

for

Chicago & North Western Railway

Design:
160' quadrangular lattice through truss and trestle

Description:
Quadrangular lattice through truss bridge over Cottonwood River

Significance:

Moderate

UP Bridge #132.42

(Chicago & North Western Railway Bridge #550)

This small steel stringer bridge carries the former Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway (Omaha Road) mainline over an unnamed drainage ditch alongside Minnesota Highway 60

Butterfield, Watonwan County, Minnesota

Owner: Union Pacific Railroad

Status: In Use

Built 1901

American Bridge Company of New York (Lassig Plant) and James McClure of St. Paul, Minnesota

for

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway

Design:
20' steel stringer

Description:
Steel stringer bridge over unnamed drainage ditch

Significance:

Local