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CSX - "Big Sandy Junction" Bridge

Boyd County, Kentucky, and Wayne County, West Virginia

Photos 

This track also carries "The Cardinal" Amtrak's New York-Washington-Charleston-Cincinnati-Chicago Route

Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in April 2010

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BH Photo #160775

Map 

Street View 

Description 

Bridges carry double tracks, also serves Amtrak (Washington to Chicago-St. Louis)

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss (Camelback designed) bridges over Big Sandy River on CSX Railroad
Location
Kenova, Boyd County, Kentucky, and Wayne County, West Virginia
Status
Open to traffic
Railroads
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O; CO)
Design
2 skewed Warren (Camelback design) middle and channel spans
2 Warren Polygonal spans, riveted (one on west end, one on east end)
13 Deck plate girder approach spans, on Catlettsburg, Kentucky side
Also called
Big Sandy Junction Railroad Bridge
C & O Big Sandy Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.40308, -82.59488   (decimal degrees)
38°24'11" N, 82°35'42" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/360739/4251743 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Catlettsburg
Inventory number
BH 44750 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Boyd County, Kentucky (12)
Built 1915 (1,264)
Built during 1910s (10,014)
CSX Railroad (1,770)
Camelback truss (414)
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (217)
Deck girder (6,335)
Girder (11,222)
Have street view (29,166)
Kenova, West Virginia (5)
Kentucky (1,377)
Open (41,013)
 Owned by railroad (13,566)
Plate girder (8,770)
Polygonal Warren through truss (469)
Polygonal Warren truss (1,149)
Railroad (16,518)
State line crossing (921)
Through truss (17,185)
Truss (35,934)
Warren truss (7,041)
Wayne County, West Virginia (39)
West Virginia (1,554)

Update Log 

  • September 22, 2016: New photos from Jack Schmidt
  • September 23, 2015: Photo imported by Dave King
  • December 31, 2010: Updated by Mark Frazier: Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
  • August 26, 2010: New photos from Calvin Sneed
  • May 3, 2010: New Street View added by J.P.
  • April 4, 2010: Added by Calvin Sneed

Sources 

  • Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Mark Frazier - mfrazier404 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
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Comments 

CSX "Big Sandy Junction" Railroad Bridge
Posted June 10, 2014, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

This bridge along with the Sciotoville Bridge was found to have hard core camera security newly installed with a half dozen cameras all aimed at different angles at each end, and a full size utility shed to house the electrical equipment. Needless to say, I have beside bridge views only.

CSX "Big Sandy Junction" Railroad Bridge
Posted November 7, 2010, by A.Brown (rab41129 [at] aol [dot] com)

It was built in 1885 through Catlettsburg, Kentucky.

C & O Big Sandy Railroad Bridge
Posted April 6, 2010, by Todd D. Walker (mrwalk08 [at] aol [dot] com)

US 60 used to cross the Big Sandy on a five span truss not too far down from this rail span. The stringer span in the background is the replacement. It was a bumpy bridge that used to take me to Camden Park, an amusement park located toward Huntington on 60. I have a newspaper clippings of the bridge being replaced including a picture of the truss bridge getting imploded.