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Norfolk and Western and Southern-Chapel Hill Street Overpass (E)
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N&W & Southern-W Chapel Hill Street Overpass (E)
Looking SW
Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in February 2015
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BH Photo #316435
Description
Two Bridges here. East bridge girders read "Norfolk and Western and Southern". The West bridge girders read "Seaboard Air Line".
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge over W Chapel Hill St on NSRR/SALRR/N&W & Southern RR
- Location
- Durham, Durham County, North Carolina
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1960
- Railroads
- - Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL)
- Design
- Steel stringer west bridge. Deck girder with flooring system east bridge.
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 21.0 ft.
Total length: 60.0 ft.
- Skew angle
- 45 degrees
- Also called
- SAL-Chapel Hill Overpass (E)
NS-Chapel Hill Overpass (E)
CXS-Chapel Hill Overpass (E)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.99697, -78.90573 (decimal degrees)
35°59'49" N, 78°54'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/688771/3985640 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Southwest Durham
- Inventory numbers
- 000000000063282
BH 66053 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 16, 2015: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley
Sources
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com