Crosses Mississippi River Clearance below 104 feet (32 m) Opened 18 April 1905 Bridge type Truss bridge Engineer Ralph Modjeski | Longest span 651 feet (198 m) Total length 1,207 m Location Illmo Body of water Mississippi River | |
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Carries Union Pacific, previously the Missouri Pacific Railroad Locale Illmo, Missouri and Thebes, Illinois Design Continuous truss bridge Address Mississippi River, Thebes, IL 62990, United States Similar Bill Emerson Memorial, Harahan Bridge, McKinley Bridge, Washington Street Bridge, Champ Clark Bridge | ||
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The Thebes Bridge is a truss bridge carrying the Union Pacific Railroad (previously carried the Missouri Pacific and Southern Pacific, in a joint operation) across the Mississippi River between Illmo, Missouri and Thebes, Illinois. It is owned by the Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company, now a UP subsidiary.
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History
The Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company was incorporated in Illinois on December 28, 1900 to own the bridge and 4.64 miles (7.47 km) of connecting rail line. It was initially owned equally by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, Illinois Central Railroad, Missouri Pacific Railway, St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, and St. Louis Southwestern Railway. The designer of the bridge was Polish-American engineer Ralph Modjeski. The Missouri Pacific and SLIM&S merged in 1917, and in 1945 the C&EI sold its 1/5 share to the Missouri Pacific, giving the latter company, since merged into the UP, a majority interest.