Kansas City Southern Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge Explained

Bridge Name:	Kansas City Southern Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge
Carries:	Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail line
Crosses:	Bonnet Carré Spillway
Locale:	St. Charles Parish, Louisiana
Owner:	Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Maint:	Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Length:	9501feet
Open:	1936
Coordinates:	30.025°N -90.4269°W

The Kansas City Southern Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge is a bridge that carries a Canadian Pacific Kansas City rail line over the Bonnet Carré Spillway in St. Charles Parish.^[1] At long (or 9,501feet), its length once had it included on the list for longest bridges in the world.^[2]

The bridge is owned and maintained by the Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited and is used by Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) freight trains. By 2015, speed limits on the bridge had been reduced to .^[3] It is proposed to be reconstructed and upgraded as part of Amtrak's proposed New Orleans–Baton Rouge passenger rail.^[4]

See also

• List of bridges in the United States

External links

• Kansas City Southern Corporate Website

Notes and References

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. Web site: Study puts price of New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger train at $262 million. Railway Track & Structures Magazine. 2014-03-30.
3. Web site: CONNECTING BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS BY INTERCITY PASSENGER RAIL . Southern Rail Commission . 15 April 2023 . September 2015 . 9.
4. News: Berlin . Carly . New Orleans to Baton Rouge passenger train moves forward: State seeks federal funds to fix tracks . 12 December 2022 . WWNO . 29 November 2022 . en.