Rating:
44750
{66}%
3 votes
CSX - "Big Sandy Junction" Bridge
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
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)
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
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.