Union Pacific, previously the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Crosses
Mississippi River
Locale
Illmo, Missouri and Thebes, Illinois
Characteristics
Design
Continuous truss bridge
Total length
3,959 feet (1,207 m)
Longest span
651 feet (198 m)
Clearance below
104 feet (32 m)
Rail characteristics
No. of tracks
2
History
Opened
April 18, 1905
Statistics
Daily traffic
45.8 trains per day (as of 2014[update])[1]
Location
The Thebes Bridge is a five-span cantilever truss bridge carrying the Union Pacific Railroad (previously carried the Missouri Pacific and Southern Pacific, in a joint operation) across the Mississippi River between Illmo, Missouri and Thebes, Illinois. It is owned by the Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company, now a Union Pacific subsidiary.[2]
^Missouri Department of Transportation (2017). The Merchants Bridge rehabilitation program (PDF) (Grant application). Figure 10: Rail Traffic Volumes Overlaid with Seismic Hazard, 2014.
^"Class I Railroad Annual Report R-1: Union Pacific Railroad Company to the Surface Transportation Board for the Year Ending Dec. 31, 2007" (PDF).
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