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Overview

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South span

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North span

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South portal

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North portal

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Close-up of north portal

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Portal bracing

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Deck view

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Upper chord joint

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Looking upstream

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Lower chord joint

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North abutment

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Steel piers

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Joints on top of middle pier

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Facts 

Overview
Twin through truss bridge over Maries River on CR 608 northeast of Westphalia
Location
Osage County, Missouri
Status
Open to traffic with a 7 ton weight limit
History
Built ca. 1915
Design
Two pin-connected, 9-panel Pratt through trusses with a corrugated steel deck
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 150.9 ft.
Total length: 301.8 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.5 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.47737, -91.97213   (decimal degrees)
38°28'39" N, 91°58'20" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/589657/4259282 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 43 N., R. 10 W., Sec. 13
USGS topographic map
Westphalia East
Inventory numbers
MO 076-078000.0 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 14865 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 22244 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 05/2007)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 23.9 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
25

Categories 

9-panel truss (46)
Built during 1910s (4,412)
Have diagram (35)
Missouri (2,585)
NR-eligible (2,623)
One-lane traffic (6,989)
Open (22,286)
Osage County, Missouri (11)
Owned by county (14,356)
Pin-connected (509)
Pratt through truss (974)
Pratt truss (1,663)
Span length 125-175 feet (2,044)
Structurally deficient (12,073)
Through truss (5,544)
Total length 250-500 feet (2,191)
Truss (16,258)

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