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NS - Tunnel Creek Trestle

Lincoln County, Kentucky

Photos 

NS - Tunnel Creek Trestle

looking north

Photo taken by Jeff Wagoner

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

View this photo at railroad.net

BH Photo #465231

Map 

Video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-xatxDOb-0

Tunnel Creek Railroad Viaduct

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Facts 

Overview
Steel deck girder bridge over Ky 1778 and South Fork Green River on Norfolk Southern Railway
Location
Lincoln County, Kentucky
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1930
Railroads
- Cincinnati, New Orleans, & Texas Pacific Railway (CNO&TP; CNTP)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Southern Railway (SOU)
Design
Deck plate girder
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 67.9 ft.
Total length: 1,250.1 ft.
Also called
NS - South Fork Trestle
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.40444, -84.72944   (decimal degrees)
37°24'16" N, 84°43'46" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/700963/4142159 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Halls Gap
Inventory number
BH 47710 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1930 (1,857)
Built during 1930s (12,246)
Cincinnati, New Orleans, & Texas Pacific Railway (28)
Deck girder (6,397)
Girder (11,343)
Kentucky (1,422)
Lincoln County, Kentucky (14)
Norfolk Southern Railway (2,150)
 Open (41,198)
Owned by railroad (13,725)
Plate girder (8,874)
Railroad (16,665)
Southern Railway (390)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,546)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (2,019)

Update Log 

  • October 6, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • August 24, 2021: New video from Satolli Glassmeyer
  • January 24, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • August 30, 2012: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "Norfolk Southern Railway", "Railroad", "Trestle", "Steel trestle"
  • January 15, 2011: Added by J.P.

Sources 

  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Flickr - drone shot by Terry Lovell in 2017
  • Geoff Hubbs
  • Satolli Glassmeyer - info [at] scenicroadrallies [dot] com

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