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General Information

Other name(s): Merchants Bridge
Completion: 1889
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: Through truss bridge
Function / usage: Railroad (railway) bridge
Material: Steel bridge

Location

Location: , ,
Crosses:
  • Mississippi River
Coordinates: 38° 40' 29" N    90° 11' 11" W
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Technical Information

Materials

truss steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Merchants Bridge, officially the Merchants Memorial Mississippi Rail Bridge, is a rail bridge crossing the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and Venice, Illinois. The bridge is owned by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. It opened in May 1889 and crossed the river 3 miles (5 km) north of the Eads Bridge.

The bridge was originally built by the St. Louis Merchants Exchange after it lost control of the Eads Bridge it had built to the Terminal Railroad. The Exchange feared a Terminal Railroad monopoly on the bridges but it would eventually lose control of the Merchants Bridge also.

In 2018 work began on an extensive renovation of the bridge projected to cost $172 Million.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Merchants Bridge" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

Currently there is no information available about persons or companies having participated in this project.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20016480
  • Published on:
    01/06/2005
  • Last updated on:
    12/09/2022
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