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Sixth Street Bridge

Spalding County, Georgia
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Photo taken by C Hanchey in March 2009

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Overview
Through truss bridge over the Norfolk Southern Railroad on Sixth Street in Griffin
Location
Spalding County, Georgia
Status
In storage or disassembled
History
Built 1912; rehabilitated 1958
Design
Pair of pin-connected Warren through trusses
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 99.7 ft.
Total length: 694.9 ft.
Deck width: 27.2 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 20.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.25045, -84.26205   (decimal degrees)
33°15'02" N, 84°15'43" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/755081/3682395 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Griffin North
Inventory numbers
GA 25500480 (Georgia bridge number on the National Bridge Inventory)
BH 12612 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 09/2010)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 10.9 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
3,050

Categories 

Built 1912 (554)
Built during 1910s (6,974)
Corrugated deck (519)
Double-barreled (19)
Georgia (403)
Have street view (12,873)
In storage (85)
Pedimented portal bracing (31)
Pin-connected (1,684)
 Spalding County, Georgia (2)
Span length 75-100 feet (4,836)
Structurally deficient (16,931)
Through truss (9,587)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,884)
Truss (24,155)
Warren through truss (1,004)
Warren truss (4,171)

Update Log 

  • July 12, 2012: Updated by Nathan Holth: Bridge is in storage.
  • March 12, 2010: Updated by Eddie Douthitt: Added Google Street View
  • March 25, 2009: New photos from C Hanchey

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Sixth Street Bridge
Posted March 28, 2013, by Chris (chris_godat [at] hotmail [dot] com)

They are currently behind the Kawanis fairground, right by the Griffin airport, and the driving range/second hole of the Griffin City Park golf course. If you turn at the fairgrounds, there is a dirt road that keeps ongoing--follow it, and the bridge parts are right before the woods--just a month ago my children and I explored them.

Sixth Street Bridge
Posted July 12, 2012, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

The historic trusses are supposed to be in storage at an airport: http://www.griffindailynews.com/view/full_story/17987259/article-Bridge-to-be-moved-Monday-morning?instance=home_news_lead_story

Sixth Street Bridge
Posted July 11, 2012, by Chris (chris_godat [at] hotmail [dot] com)

This bridge is currently being removed for a newer one. I am a Griffin resident and hate to see it go.

Sixth Street Bridge
Posted December 1, 2009, by Gene McCluney (mccluney [at] sbcglobal [dot] net)

Have a look at the color postcard reproduced as part of the photos for this Frisco railroad bridge at Fort Smith, Arkansas, from the 1880's. The trusses (the flat topped ones) are similar, if you remove some of the scroll work at the top. The scroll work is not absolutely essential to the stability of the bridge as it is under the cross-bracing.

http://bridgehunter.com/ar/sebastian/bh41293/

Sixth Street Bridge
Posted December 1, 2009, by ralph jones (rjones [at] dfiequipment [dot] com)

This bridge is scheduled to be replaced by the GDOT during 2010. Arrangements have been made to save the truss structure for the city of Griffin. We have been unable to gather much information about the bridge. There is a picture of the bridge being assembled , dated 1906. We have no information about the company that manufactured the bridge. There are no markings on the bridge. There is some speculation that it was a railroad bridge originally, then as rail loads got heavier this bridge was replaced from its original use and the city of Griffin became the owner and used it for vehicle traffic.

I am hoping that someone reading this might help me in my search.

http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/cgi-bin/vanga.cgi?query=id:spl003

Thanks,

Ralph Jones