General Information
| Other name(s): | Merchants Bridge |
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| Completion: | 1889 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Through truss bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 38° 40' 29" N 90° 11' 11" W |
Technical Information
Materials
| truss |
steel
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Merchants Bridge, officially the Merchants Memorial Mississippi Rail Bridge, is a rail bridge crossing the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and Venice, Illinois. The bridge is owned by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. It opened in May 1889 and crossed the river 3 miles (5 km) north of the Eads Bridge.
The bridge was originally built by the St. Louis Merchants Exchange after it lost control of the Eads Bridge it had built to the Terminal Railroad. The Exchange feared a Terminal Railroad monopoly on the bridges but it would eventually lose control of the Merchants Bridge also.
In 2018 work began on an extensive renovation of the bridge projected to cost $172 Million.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Merchants Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20016480 - Published on:
01/06/2005 - Last updated on:
12/09/2022
