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This photo from the Historic American Engineering Record shows the bridge before its replacement []

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Bridge Looking Upstream From The East

These photos taken Fall 1987 by Lloyd Grotjan

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Main Span Looking Downstream From The West

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View Looking From Right Bank Downstream

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North Portal

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South Portal

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Bridge Plate South Portal

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North Abutment

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Underside From Left Bank Down Stream

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Left Bank Piers Main Span

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Upper Chord Connection

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Portal Connection

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Lower Panel Connection

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Photocopy Of Photograph (Original In The Possession Of The Cooper County Court) Photographer Lloyd Grotjan (1987). View Of Main Span Proposal

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Photocopy Of Photograph (Original In The Possession Of The Cooper County Court) Photographer Lloyd Grotjan (1987). Original Blueprint Of North End Approach Structure

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Map

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Facts

Overview: Lost through truss over Lamine River on Buffalo Prairie Drive south of Blackwater
Location: Cooper County, Missouri
Status: Replaced by a new bridge in 1988
History: Built 1904 by A.M. Blodgett of Kansas City
Builder: - A.M. Blodgett
Design: Pin-connected, 10-panel Parker through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 180.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +38.92173, -92.98244 (decimal degrees)
38°55'18" N, 92°58'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/501522/4308090 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey: T. 48 N., R. 19 W., Sec. 22
USGS topographic map: Pilot Grove North
Inventory number: BH 21363 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

August 25, 2008: New photos from James Baughn

Sources

HAER MO-33 - Roberts Bluff Bridge
James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com

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