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General Information

Other name(s): Eagle River Bridge
Beginning of works: 1939
Completion: 1940
Status: in use

Project Type

Awards and Distinctions

2005 award winner  
1985

Location

Location: , , ,
Above of: Red Cliff Truss Bridge (1934)
Coordinates: 39° 30' 28.47" N    106° 22' 33.20" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 98 m
total length 145 m
deck width 9 m

Cost

cost of construction United States dollar 428 815.00

Materials

deck reinforced concrete
piers steel
arch steel
abutments reinforced concrete
springings reinforced concrete
piers on arch steel

Chronology

1940

Construction completed.

2004

Rehabilitation at a cost of US$3.6 million.

Notes

Carries U.S. Highway 24 across Eagle River, Union Pacific Tennessee Pass Railroad Line, and Water Street.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Red Cliff Bridge is a cantilevered steel arch bridge located about 0.5 mi (0.80 km) southwest of the town of Red Cliff, Colorado, one of Colorado's iconic bridges. The bridge carries U.S. Highway 24 over the Eagle River, as well as a county road, and the former Union Pacific Railroad track that heads south toward Tennessee Pass and the city of Leadville. One of only two steel arch bridges within Colorado, Red Cliff Bridge has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985 and is the state's only cantilevered steel arch bridge.

The bridge was designed by King Burghardt, an engineer at the Colorado Department of Highways, and built by contractor P.M. Kenney in 1940, using steel components fabricated by the Minnesota-Moline Power Implement Company. Construction was difficult, with workers hanging over a 200 ft (61 m) drop while working in temperatures that sometimes dipped below 0 °F (−18 °C). Burghardt wrote in his journal, "In the morning, each gang was lifted to ist scaffold on a platform hung from the high line. They took their lunches with them and spent the entire day in the air with the winter wind continually blowing up the canyon."

After more than 60 years since ist construction, the bridge had deteriorated to the point that major restoration work was required. The work was completed between March and November 2004 at a cost of $3.6 million, with $1.6 million coming from the Federal Highway Administration. The bridge deck was replaced and widened and much of the steel was repainted. However, because of the bridge's historic status, care was taken to maintain the visual aesthetic. The rehabilitation effort won the 2005 National Steel Bridge Alliance Prize Bridge Award for the year's best reconstructed bridge.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Red Cliff Bridge" and modified on 7 December 2023 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

Initial construction
Contractor
Rehabilitation (2004)
Owner
Engineers of Record
Contractor

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  • Structure-ID
    20016624
  • Published on:
    15/06/2005
  • Last updated on:
    28/11/2023
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