Railway bridge over the Río Toltén

Railway bridge over the Río Toltén
	Bridge with freight train ( EMD SD39 locomotive)
use	Railway bridge
Convicted	Río Toltén
Entertained by	Fepasa
construction	Schneider Creusot
overall length	450 m
Number of openings	9
Pillar spacing	50 m
opening	November 13, 1898
	location

-38.975144 -72.634735Coordinates: 38 ° 58 ′ 31 ″ S , 72 ° 38 ′ 5 ″ W.

The railway bridge over the Río Toltén crossed for Pitrufquén in southern Chile to Toltén River . It consisted of a lattice girder with a suspension bridge above it . The viaduct consisted of nine sections each 49 meters long and had a total length of approx. 450 meters.

State 1903

The bridge in the foreland area (2015)

The bridge, completed in 1898, collapsed on August 18, 2016 under the load of a freight train.

Individual evidence

^ Pitrufquén Historico: Historia del Puente Ferroviario. In: Blogspot . October 2011, accessed September 9, 2016 .
↑ Colapso el puente ferroviario de Pitrufquén y tren con soda caustica Cayo al río Toltén. In: soychile.cl. August 18, 2016, Retrieved September 9, 2016 (Spanish).

Web links

Commons : Puente ferroviario sobre el Río Toltén - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Pitrufquén Historico: Historia del Puente Ferroviario. In: Blogspot . October 2011, accessed September 9, 2016 .

[2] Colapso el puente ferroviario de Pitrufquén y tren con soda caustica Cayo al río Toltén. In: soychile.cl. August 18, 2016, Retrieved September 9, 2016 (Spanish).