Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge

Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge
Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge
	Satellite view of the bridge
Coordinates	45°01′46″N 93°16′53″W / 45.029414°N 93.281330°W
Carries	Canadian Pacific Railway
Crosses	Mississippi River
Locale	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Maintained by	Canadian Pacific Railway
ID number	D1.00
Characteristics
Design	Truss bridge; middle span is a suspended girder span
Total length	904 feet
Longest span	90 feet
Clearance below	28 feet
Rail characteristics
No. of tracks	1
History
Opened	1905
Statistics
Daily traffic	16.0 trains per day (as of 2014)
Location

Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge is a truss bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This bridge is the official end of the navigable channel for river traffic.^[2]^[3] It was built in 1905 by the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway. In 1977, the bridge was modified to allow higher clearance under the center span. This was done by replacing the deck truss span with a shallower girder span. It is the main line crossing of the Mississippi River for the Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental (Soo Line Railroad) line.

References

Costello, Mary Charlotte (2002). Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota. Cambridge, MN: Adventure Publications. ISBN 0-9644518-2-4.

^ Missouri Department of Transportation (2017). The Merchants Bridge rehabilitation program (PDF) (Grant application). Figure 10: Rail Traffic Volumes Overlaid with Seismic Hazard, 2014.
^ Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1969. pp. 29–.
^ U. S. Coast Guard Light Lists: Volume Five Mississippi River System. ProStar Publications. 2006. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-1-57785-712-9. It is at mile 857 of the Upper Mississippi River above the Ohio River at Cairo Illinois.

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[INFRAapplication-1] Missouri Department of Transportation (2017). The Merchants Bridge rehabilitation program (PDF) (Grant application). Figure 10: Rail Traffic Volumes Overlaid with Seismic Hazard, 2014.

[2] Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1969. pp. 29–.

[3] U. S. Coast Guard Light Lists: Volume Five Mississippi River System. ProStar Publications. 2006. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-1-57785-712-9. It is at mile 857 of the Upper Mississippi River above the Ohio River at Cairo Illinois.

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