Bridgehunter.com | CSX - Boiling Fork Stone Arch Bridge

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Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in August 2010

BH Photo #173319

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 (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: 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)