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Bellefontaine Bridge

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The structure is the last railroad structure over the Missouri River before its confluence with the Mississippi River.
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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Missouri
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designed the structure. Notably, the bridge was one of the first to use a
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Bellefontaine Bridge, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
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Missouri River
St. Charles County, Missouri
St. Louis County, Missouri
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
BNSF Railway
George S. Morison
Baltimore truss
Merchants Bridge
caissons
List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Missouri
List of crossings of the Missouri River


"Innovative Bridge Foundations Reduce Track Outage - BNSF Bellefontaine Bridge, Bellefontaine, Missouri"
"The Bellefontaine Bridge: a report to Charles E. Perkins, president of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad by George S. Morison, chief engineer of the Bellefontaine Bridge"
"Bellefontaine Bridge"
Historic American Engineering Record
Bellefontaine Bridge, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO
Bridgehunter.com profile
Missouri River
Discovery Bridge

Lewis Bridge

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Greater St Louis
Bellefontaine

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