The Highline Bridge is an elevated railroad bridge over the Armourdale district of Kansas City

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...

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Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

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It was built in 1917 and is owned and operated by the Kansas City Terminal Railway

Kansas City Terminal Railway

The Kansas City Terminal Railway is a Class III railroad terminal railroad that serves as a joint operation of the trunk railroads that serve the Kansas City metropolitan area, the country's second largest rail hub. It is presently operated by the Kaw River Railroad.The Railway was created after a...

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It crosses the Kansas River at the eastern part of the bridge, and has thru-truss spans over the Kansas River.
The rest of the bridge is a deck truss, and is about one mile long, and goes a north to southeast in direction.

The thru-truss that cross the Kansas River have lift jacks to lift it during floods.