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Back in the late 1960s as a part of a group of Boy Scouts we walked from the North Yard out to a spot about a mile above the Dayton Dam to canoe. We got picked up by car for the return trip. Later in the early 1970s I dated a wonderful girl whose family lived
in what was the old hotel directly next to the bridge and knew that underpass well. At night at least you could tell if someone was coming because of their lights hitting the reflectors on the chained off road that now leads to Sky Dive Chicago. Thus I can
tell you that the steel beam did not run the enitre lenght of the bridge but did run almost the entire length. As I remember it stopped short at the next to last of the double trestle bents at each end. I remember this because this was part of the branch my
father's section gang had replaced when I was young, and we went with a small convoy of vehicles to bring supper out to the gang on a summer evening when they were working overtime. I was also thinking of building a version of the trestle on my early 1970s
HO layout.
I still drive through Dayton when I can.
Edward V. Carroll
Professor Emeritus of History
Heartland Community College
ed.carroll@emeritus.heartland.edu
309 287-8145
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Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 2:51 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io>
Subject: [CBQ] Dayton, IL bridge
Group,
I'm working on building a model of the Dayton (Illinois) bridge and have a question. Fortunately the bridge still exists although Dayton Road has been rerouted and no longer goes beneath it. Google Maps measures it to 104' long. The Q track diagrams show
it as Br 76.61 and 1 20" I-Beam 6 spans W.P.T (wood pile trestle). Does anybody know if the I-beam spans the entire bridge, or does it just span the roadway opening? Thanks.
I don't know if there are any good railroad memories of this bridge, but trying to railfan around there was always fun as it was a one-lane underpass with a sharp 90 bend in the road. There was always a bit of hope and prayer nobody was coming the other way
when making the turn.
Eric Mumper
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