General Information
| Completion: | 1899 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
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| Structure: |
Truss bridge Swing bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, USA |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 42° 29' 55" N 90° 39' 0" W |
Technical Information
There currently is no technical data available.
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Dubuque Rail Bridge carries a single rail line across the Mississippi River between Dubuque, Iowa, and East Dubuque, Illinois, near river mile 580.
It is currently operated by Canadian National Railway. as a result of their 1999 purchase of Illinois Central Railroad.
History
The original swing bridge was constructed by Andrew Carnegie and operated by the Dunleith & Dubuque Bridge Company opening in December 1868, primarily used by the Illinois Central Railroad.
The Dubuque Rail Bridge was rebuilt in the 1890s and has 5 spans and a swing-span. Because of a 150-foot (46 m) bluff very close to the Mississippi riverbank on the Illinois side, the railroad tracks enter a 1/4-mile tunnel that curves 90-degrees to the south to allow trains to proceed along the tracks adjacent to the river south of the bridge.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Dubuque Rail Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20030636 - Published on:
28/08/2007 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
