Rating:
3 votes
Chambers Street Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Wooden truss bridge over the Georgia Northeastern Railroad on Chambers Street in Jasper
- Location
- Jasper, Pickens County, Georgia
- Status
- Reopen to traffic with a 4-ton weight limit
- History
- Built 1912, Rehabilitated 2008-2009
- Design
- Timber pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 35.8 ft.
Total length: 137.8 ft.
Deck width: 15.4 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.47049, -84.43151 (decimal degrees)
34°28'14" N, 84°25'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/735907/3817319 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Jasper
- Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
- 490
- Inventory numbers
- GA 22750300 (Georgia bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 12602 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 31.5 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- April 10, 2010: New Street View added by Eddie Douthitt
- March 11, 2010: Updated by Eddie Douthitt: Added Google Street View
- February 19, 2009: Updated by Robert Searcy
- January 25, 2009: New photo from Frank Mills
- December 13, 2008: Updated by Eddie Douthitt
Sources
- Eddie Douthitt - dalton1861 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Pickens County Progress - July 2008 article about the bridge
- Frank Mills - mills241 [at] comcast [dot] net
- Robert Searcy
Comments
Chambers Street Bridge
Hello Robert,
I will correct that about the railroad. Good to hear that they plan on reopening it to vehicular traffic soon.
Thanks,
Eddie
Chambers Street Bridge
IIRC, the railroad isn't abandoned. I recall seeing trains using that railroad within the past couple of months.
Also, the bridge, from what I've heard and read, is supposed to be repaired eventually to allow vehicles to drive over it again.
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I forgot to mention this earlier....but I may have some good news for people who hate to see old bridges destroyed (me being one of them). According to what I've read and heard around Jasper (I live just outside of the city limits), there are absolutely *NO* plans to destroy (or completely replace with a UCEB...or whatever an ugly concrete bridge is called around this site) this bridge whatsoever. I do hope all that is true......because this is a very historic landmark in Jasper.