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Laflin Bridge

Bollinger County, Missouri

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From southwest

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From southeast

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From northeast

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South side

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North side

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West end

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West approach

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West portal

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Deck view

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East end

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East approach

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East portal

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View with plaques remaining in 2003

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Below east portal

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Pier from above

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Underneath

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Looking up girder

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East pier

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West abutment

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Upper hip joint

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Upper middle joint

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Lower joint

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Behind lower joint

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Lower middle joint

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Repaired eyebar

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Approach outriggers

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Plaque

1908
Stupp Bro's
Bridge & Iron
- Co. -
F. M. Wells Pres. Judge
M. S. Gladish Associate Judge
H. Mungle   '   '   '   '   ' 
Wm Abernathy County Clerk
D. R. Sample Co. Surveyor
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April 9, 2005: Backhoe in place

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Deck removed

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View from below

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Removing the east approach

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April 13: Truss lying in water

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Pile of girders

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Approach already removed

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April 18: Not much left

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Flat pier

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Pier dug out

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2006: Replacement bridge finished

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Last remaining piece

Map 

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Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over Crooked Creek southwest of Laflin on CR 408, just beyond the end of Route U
Location
Bollinger County, Missouri
Status
Demolished to make way for replacement bridge
History
Built 1908 by Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co.; closed to traffic Dec. 15, 2003; main span demolished Apr. 13, 2005; replacement bridge opened Jan. 2006
Builder
- Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. of St. Louis, Missouri
Design
Pin-connected, 7-panel Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 120.0 ft.
Total length: 285.0 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.9 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.27169, -89.89255   (decimal degrees)
37°16'18" N, 89°53'33" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/243521/4128935 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 30 N., R. 10 E., Sec. 13
USGS topographic map
Marble Hill
Inventory numbers
MO 009-124002.4 (Missouri off-system bridge number)
MONBI 16555 (Missouri bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 20883 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 12/2003)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 0.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2004)
50

Categories 

7-panel truss (96)
Bollinger County, Missouri (35)
Built 1908 (254)
Built during 1900s (2,496)
Have diagram (35)
Lost (1,697)
Missouri (2,513)
Owned by county (14,327)
Pin-connected (487)
Pratt truss (1,595)
Replaced by new bridge (766)
Span length 100-125 feet (2,303)
Structurally deficient (12,028)
Stupp Brothers Bridge & Iron Co. (15)
Sufficiency rating zero (258)
Through truss (5,487)
Total length 250-500 feet (2,170)
Truss (16,168)
Tubular piers (17)
Wooden deck (5,164)

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Comments 

Laflin Bridge
Posted November 15, 2006, by Jerry Upchurch (upchurjw [at] bp [dot] com)

This was a very scary bridge to cross with farm eqp when you were only about 12 or 13 years old.

Laflin Bridge
Posted December 14, 2005, by jj (smurfblue3 [at] excite [dot] com)

me and my freind martin arzen use to cross this thing every tuesday night to go to leopold it was on of the funnest brides to cross when we started driving.

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