The Armco/Sheffield Steel Mill had plants on both sides of the Blue River, so it had several bridges from this one on south along the Blue River. This bridge allowed coal cars to be delievered to the power plant in the northwest corner of the mill's site. It also carried a steam pipe so that the power plant could supply steam to plants on the east side of the Blue River. Normally, I would not notice a bridge that is this small. But when I Googled the steel mill, the BridgeHunter web page was the only one that gave me a correct address for the steel mill.
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| 3D Satellite |
The debris by the pier shows that sometimes the $286m flood-control project [Dennis DeBruler] gets used.
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| July 2013 Photo by Clark Vance via BridgeHunter |
Now it carries several utilities, but no steam.
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| July 2013 Photo by Clark Vance via BridgeHunter |
Near the bottom of this 1955 photo, one can see that there was also a high-line bridge right next to this one.
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