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Johnsonville Railroad Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss swing bridge over Tennessee River on the NC&Stl Railway between Eva and (Old) Johnsonville
- Location
- Humphreys County, Tennessee, and Benton County, Tennessee
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Originally built 1867 as a timber Howe truss bridge; rebuilt or modified in 1873, 1893, 1900, and 1915; demolished 1945 with the creation of Kentucky Lake
- Railroad
- - Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway (NC&StL)
- Design
- Swing Pratt through truss
- Also called
- NC&StL - Johnsonville Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.06728, -87.97268 (decimal degrees)
36°04'02" N, 87°58'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/412407/3991848 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Johnsonville
- Inventory number
- BH 32574 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Ken Ingram - jingram [at] san [dot] rr [dot] com
- John R Latimer - latimers00 [at] bellsouth [dot] net
- Douglas Butler
Comments
Johnsonville Railroad Bridge
Haven't been to kentucky lake..... yet, But fish reservoir lakes often. Judging by the bare trees... the bridge trestle in the "now" picture could be exposed because of the winter draw down.( performed in anticipation of heavy spring rains so the reservoir doesn't overfill or for conservation management ) And yes, it would be otherwise submerged when the lake is at regular pool. I'll have to look for that submerged bridge when my husband and I go there in the fall. I'm sure there's lots of crappies there, maybe a monster bass or two :-)
Johnsonville Railroad Bridge
There isn't even that much of the bridge showing. The whole town was flooded in 1945 (including this bridge area). There is no longer any part of the bridge showing above water.
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Molly...the "old train trestle" can be seen all year around, just more of it visible in the winter with the low water. This year the water is even lower because of the drought this year. This picture is from October 2010. I've been in this area 26 yrs and the water is the lowest I've seen it. The funny thing is in May we had a 500 yr flood..16 inches of rain in two days, then a drought.