Location / Name:
Kansas City KS, Wyandotte County (just barely :-)
What's Here:
Santa Fe Junction of the Kansas City Terminal Rwy
Double decked railroad bridge
"Triple" Crossing
Tower #3
Data:
GPS Coordinates: as needed
Phone A/C: 913 in KS / 816 in MO
ZIP: 66103 in KS / 64108 in MO
Access by train/transit:
None
The Scoop:
Santa Fe Junction is just "a hair" into Kansas where 25th St meets State
Line Rd, and is probably one of the busiest junctions in America, with
100-150 movements a day thru here.
Virtually every yard in the Kansas City area can be gotten to by passing
thru Santa Fe Junction.
Acknowledgements:
Denver Todd
Maersk.146
Tyler Silvest via Wikimedia Commons
Tom Gatermann
Doc Grommesh
Bridge Hunter dot com
Google Maps
Bing Maps
Open Street/Railway Maps
It looks like the easiest way to get here is exit 1D (20th St) from SB I-35,
or exit 1C from NB 35, which will dump you off on West Pennway St (a block
south of 20th St).
At the end of the SB ramp, take a right onto 20th St and go 1-1/2 blocks to
Summit St and take a left to go south. >>> Go south 3 blocks, and take
a right onto Southwest Blvd. Go 3 short blocks to West 25th St on your
right, and take it. In a quarter of a mile, 25th St will take a left,
and go under a track (with West Allan St continuing straight). You
will cross a pair of tracks, and where 25th St takes a hard right and turns
into State Line Rd, it puts you in the middle of Santa Fe Junction.
From the NB exit, take a left at the end of the ramp onto Pennway St, and go
1-1/2 blocks to Summit St and take a left, follow the instructions above
from the >>>, but you only need to go 2 blocks before taking a right onto
Southwest Blvd.
I guess we can consider this a triple-crossing. However, unlike the
triple-crossing in Richmond VA where the three cross each other at exactly
the same point, they are slightly off here.
Standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona, no, that's something else, can't
remember what...
Anyways, this is what you can see from the corner of State
Line Rd and 25th St.
Get your searchlight signal pictures while you can..... :-)
The KCT - Highline (ATSF Double Deck Railroad) Bridge
GPS Coordinates: 39.08436, -94.61079
The bridge is a two-level truss bridge, and the network of approaches over
the Kansas River on the KCT Rwy in Kansas City.....
-- More specifically, it's a Baltimore Through Truss, with flood jacks.
The bridge is also known as the KCT/Kansas River Bridge and the KCT/Armstrong Yard Highline Viaduct
It is a vertical lift bridge that only lifts for floods.
The bridge goes from Kansas City, Wyandotte County KS to Kansas City, Jackson County MO.
It was built 1917 and rehabilitated in 2005.
Total length of the bridge is 5,210.6 ft. (1.0 mi.)
Length of largest span is 300ft.
Obviously, with as much track, and as many railroads as there are
in the Kansas City area, there are going to be signals ALL OVER
the place. I'm only going to touch on what can be seen from State Line
Road.