CNR Bonnet Carré Spillway-Baton Rouge Bridge explained

Bridge Name:CNR Bonnet Carré Spillway-Baton Rouge Bridge
Carries:Canadian National rail line
Crosses:Bonnet Carré Spillway
Locale:St. Charles Parish
Owner:Canadian National Railway
Maint:Canadian National Railway
Length:6864feet
Open:1936
Coordinates:30.014°N -90.4364°W

The CNR Bonnet Carré Spillway-Baton Rouge Bridge is a 1.3 mile (2,092 m or 6,864 ft) wooden trestle bridge that carries a Canadian National Railway rail line over the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish.[1] [2] Its length once had it included on the list for longest bridges in the world.

The bridge is owned and maintained by the Canadian National Railway corporation and is used by Canadian National Railway freight trains. It is currently being reconstructed as a concrete bridge[3] to allow Amtrak to run a train between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

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  1. Web site: Bonnet Carré Spillway Master Plan . U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . 2014-03-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140331011614/http://140.194.100.31/recreation/mp_without_appendices.pdf . March 31, 2014 .
  2. Book: United States Army. Corps of Engineers. Bonnet Carré Spillway. 1950. Louisiana. 2018-03-23. United States Government.
  3. https://www.hdrinc.com/portfolio/bonnet-carre-spillway-rail-bridge-reconstruction-environmental-services