Hastings Rail Bridge

Hastings Rail Bridge

Infobox_Bridge
bridge_name=Hastings Rail Bridge


caption=A view of the Hastings Rail Bridge from the west.
official_name=
crosses=Mississippi River
carries=One track of the Canadian Pacific Railway
locale=Hastings, Minnesota
design=Lift bridge
mainspan=convert|324|ft
length=convert|1755|ft
width=One track
below=convert|60|ft (span lifted), convert|21.9|ft (span down)
open=1981
maint=Canadian Pacific Railway
id=L-268
coordinates=coord|44|44|48|N|92|50|52|W|region:US_type:landmark

Hastings Rail Bridge is a lift bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Hastings, Minnesota. It is one of only three lift spans on the Mississippi River, the others being at Hannibal, Missouri, and in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. It was built in 1981 by Milwaukee Road and was designed by Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff.

It crosses the Mississippi river in a north/south orientation from Hastings just upstream of Point Douglas, where the Saint Croix River empties into the Mississippi river.

Another nearby lift bridge is the Prescott BNSF lift bridge, in Prescott, Wisconsin that crosses the St. Croix River. The two tracks converge at the St. Croix interlocking tower

ee also

*List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

References

* cite book
last = Costello
first = Mary Charlotte
authorlink =
coauthors =
year = 2002
title = Climbing the Mississippi River Bridge by Bridge, Volume Two: Minnesota
publisher = Adventure Publications
location = Cambridge, MN
id = ISBN 0-9644518-2-4

Crossings navbox
structure = Bridges
place = Mississippi River
bridge = Hastings Rail Bridge
bridge signs =
upstream = Hastings High Bridge
upstream signs =
downstream = Eisenhower Bridge
downstream signs =


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