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Muscogee Wharf
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Pensacola Bay
- Location
- Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida
- Status
- Lost, but 2 piers remain
- History
- Built circa 1934, abandoned circa 1970
- Railroad
- - Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N; LN)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.41050, -87.19548 (decimal degrees)
30°24'38" N, 87°11'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/481224/3364290 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pensacola
- Inventory number
- BH 51926 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 3, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Wharf"
- April 2, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Louisville and Nashville Railroad"
- April 2, 2012: Added by David Backlin
Sources
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
Comments
Muscogee Wharf Bridge
http://home.mchsi.com/~jerrym151/Continued/SouthernStates3.h...
may have one or more photos of this structure.
© Copyright 2002-19, James Baughn and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/fl/escambia/bh51926/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/fl/escambia/bh51926/
The "piers" in the photo are the foundations for the rotary coal car unloader that the L&N installed in 1927. This equipment rotated railroad coal cars so their contents could flow down into a hopper then be sent onto ships through chutes. At the time it was the most modern coal unloader in the world. The unloader was about the only part of the wharf left after the fire in 1955.