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CSX - Boiling Fork Stone Arch Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Spectacular stone arch bridge over Boiling Fork Creek on CSX Railroad
- Location
- Cowan, Franklin County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1851 as wooden trestle, replaced with stone arch bridge around turn of century
- Railroads
- - CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N; LN)
- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (NC&StL)
- Design
- Stone arch bridge, with a row of cut stones that follows the line of the arch
- Dimensions
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Total length: 60.0 ft.
- Also called
- L&N - Railroad Boiling Fork Arch Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.16245, -86.00668 (decimal degrees)
35°09'45" N, 86°00'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/590464/3891509 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Winchester
- Elevation
- 968 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 45953 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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