Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge
Coordinates: 44 ° 59 ′ 16 ″ N , 93 ° 15 ′ 57 ″ W.
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| use | Two tracks of the BNSF Railway | |
| Crossing of | Mississippi River | |
| place | Minneapolis , Minnesota | |
| Entertained by | BNSF Railway | |
| Building number | A1.3 | |
| construction | A petit truss span , three T- beam bridges and three concrete girder bridges | |
| overall length | 167.6 m | |
| width | 10.2 m | |
| Longest span | 52.1 m | |
| Clear height | 7.3 m | |
| opening | 1893 | |
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| Bridges over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis / St. Paul. | ||
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The Minneapolis BNSF Rail Bridge is a combination of a girder bridge and a truss bridge that spans the Mississippi River bed between central Minneapolis , Minnesota and Nicollet Island in Minneapolis. It is in the immediate vicinity of the current Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis .
history
The bridge was built in 1893 by the Great Northern Railway and redesigned in 1926. It replaced a structure that had been built on the same site in 1867 for the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad and was the first railroad crossing of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis.
Today's form
In 1963 two of the spans and one pillar were removed. Instead, a petit truss field has been added. This measure was taken to enable navigation above the Saint Anthony Falls in connection with the construction of a lock . The use of petit truss constructions is unusual for the Mississippi River, but the other two bridges that lead to Nicollet Island are of the same construction.
The south side of the bridge has an unusual shape. Originally there was a branching curve just before one end of the bridge that led to the Minneapolis Union Depot (later the Minneapolis Great Northern Depot ). When passenger traffic in the center of Minneapolis ceased and the West River Parkway was built, the curve with the tracks leading to the depot was dismantled.
use
The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad eventually became the St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railway, then the Great Northern Railway, Burlington Northern and finally the BNSF Railway . It currently serves the connections to Willmar and Monticello, but also enables the connection to the Twin Cities and Western Railway.
As soon as the Northstar Commuter Rail stop at Twins Ballpark opens, passenger trains will again travel over the bridge.
literature
- Mary Charlotte Costello: Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge. Volume 2: Minnesota. MC Costello, Davenport IA 2002, ISBN 0-9644518-2-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicollet Island Railroad Bridge ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Minneapolis Riverfront district - Bridges
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