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Overview: Through truss bridge over Rockcastle River on KY 490
Location: Laurel County, Kentucky, and Rockcastle County, Kentucky
Status: Open to traffic
Future prospects: Slated for rehabilitation in November 2011
History: Built 1922
Builder: - Brookville Bridge Co. of Brookville, Ohio
Design: Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 200.1 ft.
Total length: 205.0 ft.
Deck width: 19.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.5 ft.
Recognition: Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called: Rockcastle River KY 490 Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +37.30101, -84.16013 (decimal degrees)
37°18'04" N, 84°09'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 16/751708/4132047 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Livingston
Inventory numbers: KY 063-B00004N (Kentucky bridge number)
BH 18857 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2011): Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 2.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2011): 237

Update Log

October 12, 2011: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder
October 12, 2011: Updated by Nathan Holth: This Bridge Is Now Slated For Rehabilitation.
March 13, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added Google Street View.

Sources

Greg Hall - cyclebay [at] aol [dot] com
Bill Eichelberger
News Article
Nathan Holth
Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com

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Rockcastle River KY 490 Bridge

Posted October 12, 2011, by Nathan Holth (form3 [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

I did a serious double-take during this evening's crawl for Historic Bridge Newsroom updates when I found this article that claims the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is going to rehabilitate a historic truss bridge. http://thetimestribune.com/local/x350479503/Laurel-bridge-to-be-restored

I am extremely happy to see this rare exception to the Cabinet's typical manner of dealing with historic truss bridges.

Rockcastle River KY 490 Bridge

Posted March 31, 2007, by james (jamest917 [at] gmail [dot] com)

heres the bridge

Laurel Bridge