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CALA - Lumber River Bridge

Marion County, South Carolina, and Horry County, South Carolina

Photos 

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in September 2015

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BH Photo #337986

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Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Lumber River on Carolina Southern Railroad
Location
Marion County, South Carolina, and Horry County, South Carolina
Status
Open to traffic
Railroad
- Carolina Southern Railroad (CALA)
Design
Through truss swing
Approximate latitude, longitude
+34.24006, -79.13286   (decimal degrees)
34°14'24" N, 79°07'58" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/671950/3790350 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Nichols
Inventory number
BH 62318 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Carolina Southern Railroad (2)
County line crossing (533)
Horry County, South Carolina (8)
Marion County, South Carolina (6)
Movable (2,984)
Open (39,969)
Pratt through truss (5,421)
 Pratt truss (9,341)
Railroad (15,595)
South Carolina (512)
Swing (1,461)
Through truss (15,155)
Truss (32,928)

Update Log 

  • September 10, 2018: New photos from Douglas Butler
  • September 24, 2015: New photo from Luke
  • September 24, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • August 16, 2014: Updated by Luke: Corrected GPS & railroad
  • August 5, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • Luke
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Comments 

CALA - Lumber River Bridge
Posted September 9, 2018, by Luke

It was probably built with one due to logging/lumbering on the river. Traffic which dried up in the thirties:

http://www.sac.usace.army.mil/Portals/43/docs/regulatory/Rep...

CALA - Lumber River Bridge
Posted September 8, 2018, by Ed Hollowell (erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com)

This makes me wonder if the swing movement was only done to allow clearance of flood debris.

CALA - Lumber River Bridge
Posted September 8, 2018, by Rick M (rick119 [at] excite [dot] com)

A few pics taken on 9/8/2018