Rating:
36997
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2 votes
CSX Duck River Bridge
Photo
Old L & N Railroad Bridge
The only Warren through truss bridge on the old L & N Railroad Line between Nashville, Tennessee and Decatur, Alabama. View is northbound (towards Nashville).
Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in 1973
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BH Photo #119106
Picture History
Written by Calvin Sneed
This pictures was taken in 1974, as a northbound train approached. The steel bridge has been painted several times since.
I visited again in 2015 and found the bridge in need of painting again. The railroad and this bridge gets a lot of traffic since CSX closed its companion parallel north-south route between Athens, Alabama and Brentwood, TN.
Facts
- Overview
- Warren through truss bridge over Duck River in Northern Marshall County
- Location
- Marshall County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1913
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroads
- - CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Design
- Steel reinforced Warren through truss with all verticals and end panel crash bars
- Dimensions
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Total length: 320.0 ft.
Deck width: 23.0 ft.
- Also called
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.58346, -86.72751 (decimal degrees)
35°35'00" N, 86°43'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/524687/3937784 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Farmington
- Elevation
- 668 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 36997 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 7, 2015: Updated by Andy Winegar: Corrected bridge type
- October 5, 2015: New photos from Calvin Sneed
- October 3, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
- January 2, 2010: Updated by Calvin Sneed: http://www.csx.com/
- December 31, 2009: Updated by Calvin Sneed: CSX spokesperson says CSX Transportation includes rail. intermodal and transfer services. CSX Railroad is correct name for railroad only.
- July 31, 2008: New photos from Calvin Sneed
- July 30, 2008: Essay added by Calvin Sneed
Sources
- Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Andy Winegar
Loved our visit!