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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 1880; Abandoned 1955
- Railroads
- - Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Pensacola & Mobile Railroad
- 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
- December 21, 2019: New photo from Luke
- 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
- Luke
Comments
Muscogee Wharf
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.
Muscogee Wharf Bridge
http://home.mchsi.com/~jerrym151/Continued/SouthernStates3.h...
may have one or more photos of this structure.
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Thank you for this information!! Has been in debate in our family conversations for many months. Now I am validated in the facts shown!!