The Republican River Pegram Truss is a

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located near

Concordia, Kansas Concordia is a city in and the county seat of Cloud County, Kansas, United States. It is located along the Republican River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains in North Central Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of th ...

that is listed on the

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. It is a three-span through

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over the

Republican River The Republican River is a river in the central Great Plains of North America, rising in the High Plains of eastern Colorado and flowing east U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map acce ...

on route 795, northeast of Concordia. The bridge was built in 1893 by the Edge Moor Bridge Works of

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. This bridge, originally erected as a railroad bridge, consists of a Pegram truss span between two triple-intersection Warren (lattice) truss spans. It is the only Pegram truss bridge used to carry automobile traffic in Kansas.

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Historic Bridges of the US(with photos)

Cloud County Road and Bridge Department
Railroad bridges in Kansas Buildings and structures in Cloud County, Kansas Bridges completed in 1893 Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Tourist attractions in Cloud County, Kansas National Register of Historic Places in Cloud County, Kansas Railroad bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas Lattice truss bridges in the United States Warren truss bridges in the United States {{Kansas-bridge-struct-stub

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