NS - Old Lee Highway Overpass

Photos 

Norfolk Southern Railway Bridge over Lee Hwy

Photo taken by C Hanchey

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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BH Photo #232324

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview

Girder bridge over Old Lee Hwy on Norfolk Southern Railway

Location

McMinn County, Tennessee

Status

Open to traffic

History

Built 1930 by the Virginia Bridge & Iron Co.

Builder

- Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. of Roanoke, Virginia [also known as Virginia Bridge Co.]

Railroads

- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Southern Railway (SOU)

Design

Girder

Dimensions

Length of largest span: 51.8 ft.
Total length: 151.9 ft.

Also called

Southern - Old Lee Highway Overpass

Approximate latitude, longitude

+35.49000, -84.57722   (decimal degrees)
35°29'24" N, 84°34'38" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

16/719778/3930083 (zone/easting/northing)

Quadrangle map:

Athens

Average daily traffic (as of 1998)

3,560

Inventory numbers

TN 540A9450001 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 52493 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Inspection report (as of November 1999)

View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Update Log 

• May 30, 2014: New Street View added by Eddie Douthitt
• May 19, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Active Railroad"
• May 18, 2012: Added by C Hanchey

Sources 

• C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
• Eddie Douthitt - dalton1861 [at] yahoo [dot] com

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