Status: Replaced by a new bridge
Location: 45.475000,-90.065833
Carries River Drive over North Fork Spirit River
Design: arch/deck/stone
Design Details: Stone arch
Total Length: 45.6 Feet
Span Length: 45.6 Feet
Overview: Lost stone arch bridge over North Fork Spirit River on River Drive
History: Replaced 2005
Built:
Location: Price County
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Status: Open to traffic
Location: 45.463056,-90.575833
Carries Riley Road over North Fork Jump River
Design: truss/pony
Design Details: Pony truss
Total Length: 61.0 Feet
Span Length: 60.0 Feet
Overview: Pony truss bridge over North Fork Jump River on Riley Road
History: Built 1921; rehabilitated 1970
Built: 1921
Location: Price County
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Status: Replaced by a new bridge
Location: 45.853333,-90.412500
Carries Old WI 13 over Sailor Creek
Design: truss/pony
Design Details: Pony truss
Total Length: 52.5 Feet
Span Length: 49.9 Feet
Overview: Pony truss bridge over Sailor Creek on Old WI 13
History: Built 1928, replaced 2010
Built: 1928
Location: Price County
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Status: Open to traffic
Location: 0.000000,0.000000
Carries FR 148 over South Fork Flambeau River
Design: truss/through
Design Details: Covered Through truss
Total Length: 76.1 Feet
Span Length: 76.1 Feet
Overview: Covered bridge over South Fork Flambeau River on FR 148
History: Built 1991
Built: 1991
Location: Price County
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Status: Replaced by new bridge
Location: 45.438500,-90.617500
Carries CTH N over South Fork Jump River
Design: truss/through/camelback
Design Details: It was one of two camelback overhead truss bridges left in Wisconsin when it was demolished.
Total Length: 142.9 Feet
Span Length: 140.0 Feet
Overview: Lost Camelback through truss bridge over South Fork Jump River on CTH N
History: Built 1924; Demolished 1989
Built: 1924
Location: Price County
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119311
General View, Looking Southeast
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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General View, Looking Southwest, Showing Bridge And Setting
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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3/4 View Of Bridge, Looking Southwest
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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3/4 View Of Bridge, Looking Southeast
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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Barrel View, Close-Up, Looking North
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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Barrel View, Close-Up, Looking South
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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Barrel View, General Setting, Looking South
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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Barrel View, General Setting, Looking North
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
119319
Detail Of Riveted Connection Between Hip Vertical And Bottom Chord
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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Detail Of Expansion Bearing At Northwest Corner Of Bridge
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
119321
Detail View, Showing Vertical, Top Chord, Diagonal, And Intermediate Bracing
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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Detail View Of Northeast Corner, Showing Hip Vertical, Inclined End Post, And Upper Chord
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
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Detail View, Looking Northeast, Showing Underside Of Deck
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
119324
Detail View, Looking North, Showing Railing On West Side
Photo taken by Mark R. Fay, April 19, 1987 for HAER
Status: Open to traffic
Location: 45.910840,-90.171980
Carries Smith Rapids Road over South Fork, Flambeau River
Design: truss/through/lattice/town
Design Details: Town lattice through truss
Total Length: 94.0 Feet
Span Length: 0.0 Feet
Overview: Town lattice truss bridge over South Fork, Flambeau River on Smith Rapids Road
History: Built 1991
Built: 1991
Location: Price County
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Status: Removed
Location: 45.912220,-90.448752
Carries Flambeau Paper Company Railroad over Flambeau River
Design: girder/pony/plate
Design Details: Pony plate girder
Total Length: 0.0 Feet
Span Length: 0.0 Feet
Overview: Lost Pony plate girder bridge over Flambeau River on Flambeau Paper Company Railroad
History: Built 1912; Removed and relocated 1938
Built: 1912
Location: Price County
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map 1912 Flambeau River
Map from 1912 when the bridge was new
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg in February 2012
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River foundations looking south
there's two stone abutments and 2 aging concrete footings in the river
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg in February 2012
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looking southeast
For reference, the highway 13 bridge is shown, to the left of the Paper Company railroad bridge that was there from 1912 to 1922
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg in February 2012
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Flambeau Paper Company RR 1910
It's February, 2019, and we now have this 1910 picture of this bridge when it was new, by Guy Waldo (paper mill manager); courtesy of John Berg of the Price County Historical Society. The credit reference for the picture is Flambeau Paper Co RR Trestle Price County Historical Society P9852PCH.jpg Its a half-through plate girder bridge, multi-span, on two steel trestle towers. The ends are supported on top of the stone and mortar foundations, a Wisconsin / German method of stone wall construction using the plentiful variety of round stones left by the glaciers that passed over this area.) Up stream in the distance is the dam and pulp grinding mill called Lower Dam, that was operating since 1902. The girder bridge was on the extension of the paper mill railroad another 5 miles to Pixley dam, that was being built further downstream to produce more ground pulp. The State Highway 13 bridge is not in this picture, it would be built years later, between this girder bridge and Lower Dam. The mill's paper pulping process changed by the 1920's, and after 1921 there was no need for a train to move pulp wood to the dams for grinding. Then the railroad was shortened and this bridge may have been removed about 1923? I don't know if it was sold or salvaged to be a bridge in some other state. This was the era of the end of lumbering railroads in Wisconsin, but some equipment was being sold or moved to the West Coast forests. If you want the history of this segment of the Flambeau Paper Company Railroad, please contact me. I have 40 pages written, covering the years 1897 to 1922. Email me at bruce . .. oldn . . 2 n 7 at gm . . . ail do t com and push it all together to make an email address, I give it this way to confuse email harvesters. Can the moderator of bridgehunters change the classification of this bridge? It was listed as a truss when I didn't know better, but now we know its a girder bridge And that surprised me, because I would think that many bridges of this age would be pin-connected trusses. I wonder if this girder bridge is an early product of American Bridge and Iron? It seems that they supplied many girder railroad bridges in Wisconsin.
Guy Waldo coll. Price County Hist.Society P9852PCH
Status: Open to traffic
Location: 45.547806,-90.290861
Carries Lrd Town Street over S Fork Jump River
Design: slab
Design Details: Slab
Total Length: 88.9 Feet
Span Length: 43.0 Feet
Overview: Slab bridge over S Fork Jump River on Lrd Town Street
History: Built 2005
Built: 2005
Location: Price County
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Status: Replaced by a new bridge
Location: 45.547806,-90.290773
Carries Town Street over S Fork Jump River
Design: truss/through/pratt
Design Details: Pratt through truss
Total Length: 0.0 Feet
Span Length: 0.0 Feet
Overview: Lost Through truss bridge over S Fork Jump River on Town Street
History:
Built:
Location: Price County
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438497
Circa 1908
Old Postcard View
Status: Replaced by a new bridge
Location: 45.878440,-90.416575
Carries Balsam Street over S Fork Flambeau River
Design: truss/pony
Design Details: Pony truss
Total Length: 100.1 Feet
Span Length: 98.1 Feet
Overview: Lost Pony truss bridge over S Fork Flambeau River on Balsam Street
History: Built 1901,Replaced 1998
Built: 1901
Location: Price County
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Status: Replaced by a new bridge
Location: 45.599605,-90.252992
Carries Lrd Mail Route Road over S Fork Jump River
Design: truss/pony
Design Details: Pony truss
Total Length: 45.9 Feet
Span Length: 44.9 Feet
Overview: Lost Pony truss bridge over S Fork Jump River on Lrd Mail Route Road
History: Built 1915, replaced 1996
Built: 1915
Location: Price County
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Status: Replaced by a new bridge
Location: 45.931906,-90.447175
Carries Wisconsin Central Railroad over Flambeau River
Design: truss/through
Design Details: Through truss
Total Length: 135.0 Feet
Span Length: 135.0 Feet
Overview: Lost Through truss bridge over Flambeau River on Wisconsin Central Railroad
History: This was the first bridge over the Flambeau River. The sandstone block abutments were laid in 1874.
Built: 1875
Location: Price County
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FirstTruss4panel
The Flambeau Paper Company had a blueprint, dated 1897; the red line shows a proposed track underneath the WC RR, sneaking along the river bank.
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg in 1979
Status: Replaced by a new bridge
Location: 45.932100,-90.447046
Carries over Flambeau River
Design: truss/through/pratt
Design Details: Pratt through truss
Total Length: 135.0 Feet
Span Length: 135.0 Feet
Overview: Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Flambeau River
History: Built 1896, from Wisconsin Bridge and Iron, replaced 1927
Built: 1896
Location: Price County
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Wisconsin Central RR bridge 1896-1927
WC RR bridge
Price County Historical Soc 8514 scan by John Berg
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The ledge under the WC RR bridge
The ledge along the river bank has the Flambeau Paper Co tracks almost at water level.
close up of Price County Hist Soc 851 from John Berg
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BridgeTruss01
My diagram of the 1896 truss
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg
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BridgeTruss02
My diagram of the Flambeau Paper Co. locomotive No. 2 going under the WC RR bridge. The loco was a new 1912 Baldwin based on a 2-6-2 tank engine logging loco design. Except it was built low, nothing extended above the water tank, so it would fit under this bridge.
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg
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Flambeau Paper No. 2
The locomotive operated from 1912 to 1947 and was then scrapped. I am working on the history of the Flambeau Paper Co. RR during the era of 1897 to 1923, when trains went south seven miles to the wood pulp grinding dams. They squeezed under the WC RR truss bridge. The loco was only 12 feet high, yet it was standard gauge. During Spring floods, the rails were under water in the underpass.
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg
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Shuffl01
My map of how the Flambeau Paper Co. RR ducked under the WC RR truss bridge, from 1901 to 1923
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg
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Shuffl02
My map of the Flambeau Paper Co. RR after 1923, when the underpass was abandoned and the mill switched on to the WC main line and shuffled up the main for 200 feet to the next switch, and then switched down to regain mill tracks. This required WC train orders every time.
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg
Status: Open to traffic
Location: 45.932100,-90.446960
Carries Canadian National RR over Flambeau River
Design: girder/deck/plate
Design Details: It consists of two 66 ft deck plate girder spans with a skew, for 132 feet total length.
The previous bridge's stone block abutments were remodeled to hold the girders.
There was a new concrete center pier in the river; log drives no longer came down the river, so a clear span was not necessary.
Total Length: 132.0 Feet
Span Length: 66.0 Feet
Overview: Deck plate girder bridge over Flambeau River on Canadian National RR
History: Built 1927 by American Bridge Co.
Built: 1927
Location: Price County
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BridgeNorth1
This girder bridge is still in use, since 1927
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg in December 2014
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NorthWestAbutment
The sandstone has been there since 1874, and modified with a pocket to hold the girder in 1927
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg in August 2015
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BridgeGirder11
My diagram of the bridge
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg
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BridgeGirder12
The sandstone block abutment that held the previous truss bridge was modified, a concrete dump board wall was added, and a concrete footer for under the support chairs; all in 1927
Photo taken by Bruce Oldenberg
Special Bridge Conditions Legend: R - Former location of relocated bridge. ! - At risk for demolition or destruction. X - Confirmed demolished or collapsed. S - Dismantled and/or in storage. L - Severe loss of historic integrity due to alteration.
