Waddell "A" Truss Bridge (Parkville, Missouri)

The Waddell "A" Truss Bridge, also known as Linn Branch Creek Bridge, is a historic truss bridge located at Parkville, Platte County, Missouri. It was built in 1898.[2] It was designed by engineer John Alexander Low Waddell and is the subject of U.S. Patent 529,220.[3]

Waddell "A" Truss Bridge
LocationEnglish Landing Park trail over Rush Creek, Parkville, Missouri
Coordinates39°11′9″N 94°40′56″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1898
ArchitectJohn Alexander Waddell
Architectural styleWaddell "A" truss
NRHP reference No.90002173[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 25, 1991

Waddell went on to become a distinguished engineer of many vertical lift bridges (which this is not).

The Waddell "A" Truss Bridge spanned the Linn Branch Creek, in Missouri, but was removed for the construction of Smithville Lake.

The bridge served rail traffic until 1939, and then road traffic for Missouri Highway 4 from 1953 to 1980. It was dismantled in 1981 and moved to its current location at English Landing Park in Parkville, Missouri, in 1987.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

A second Waddell "A" Truss bridge spans the Cross Bayou in Shreveport, Louisiana. Now abandoned, the bridge once carried the Kansas City Southern Railway across the bayou. It has been listed on the National Register as Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge, Cross Bayou, and is recognized as a historic site by the City of Shreveport.[5]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Hauck, George F. W.; Gilleard, Gerald Lee; Mitchell, Steve (August 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Waddell 'A' Truss Bridge" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-02-01. (includes 7 photographs from 1978 and 1987)
  3. Jackson, Donald C. "Waddell 'A' Truss Bridge" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 1. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  4. Bridge's historical marker "Facts and Figures" plate
  5. "Abandoned Rails of Shreveport".


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