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View from below

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East approach

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Footing

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Span over highway 134

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Spans over interstate 24

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Support tower

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Underneath

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View from a distance

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West approach

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Map 

Vicinity Map

Vicinity map

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Actual Location 

Written by Calvin Sneed

This bridge is actually in Marion County, Tennessee

Facts 

Overview
Massive steel plate girder trestle over Running Water Creek and I-24 on the CSX Railroad, west of Chattanooga
Location
Marion County, Tennessee
Status
Open to rail traffic
Design
Deck plate girder
Approximate latitude, longitude
+35.00088, -85.51218   (decimal degrees)
35°00'03" N, 85°30'44" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/635769/3874151 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
New Home
Inventory number
BH 36667 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log 

  • July 31, 2008: Fixed county
  • July 30, 2008: Essay added by Calvin Sneed
  • June 4, 2008: New photos from James Baughn

Sources 

  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
  • Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com

Comments 

Running Water Trestle
Posted August 5, 2008, by Remick Bloss (madirea1 [at] netscape [dot] com)

Oh my heavens!!!!!! I finally found other pictures of this trestle. Does anyone have a photo of the tracks as you are looking across the bridge, like a view from the deck. I saw this trestle when my mom and I were taking one of our vacations coming up from Florida ( came through Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky ) to Missouri. The first time I saw this bridge, I nearly had a heart attack. Man, it is AWESOME!!!!! I plan on building one like it for a model railroad.