Caney Fork River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Caney Fork River on former Lebanon-Cookeville Road.
- Location
- Smith County, Tennessee
- Status
- Closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1904 by chicago bridge co. for two farmers for a toll bridge, sold to county in 1927 for $12,000, abandoned Jan 1973
- Builder
- - Chicago Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Design
- The bridge is 703.5 feet long and 12 feet wide. It contains one 200-foot Camelback through
truss, one 110-foot Pratt deck truss, one 20.5-foot bent, one 66-foot Pratt half-hip deck truss,
five steel I-beams (from 19-25 feet long), and one 200-foot approach on masonry fill. All
trusses are pin-connected. Composition of the Camelback truss is typical. Top chords and
end posts are channels. Bottom chords and diagonals are paired rectilinear eyebars. Verticals
are small channels with lacing except hip verticals which are paired rectilinear tie rods.
Counters are paired cylindrical tie rods. Composition of the Pratt trusses is less typical but
not unique. Top chords and end posts are paired angles with lacing top and bottom, and
bottom chords are paired rectilinear eyebars. Verticals are paired angles with lacing. Diagonals
in the end panels are paired rectilinear eyebars. Diagonals in the center panels and all
counters are single cylindrical tie rods. The Camelback truss rests on a small masonry
abutment on top of a stone bluff and a pier of steel encased concrete tubular cylinders; the
remainder of the substructure is steel bents. The steel bent eastern approach contains a sharp
curve. - Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 171.9 ft.
Total length: 743.1 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.0 ft.
- Also called
- Old Stonewall Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.18113, -85.90822 (decimal degrees)
36°10'52" N, 85°54'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/598175/4004590 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Gordonsville
- Inventory numbers
- TN 800A1380001 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 32703 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 07/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 20.1 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2008)
- 70
Update Log
- August 10, 2011: Updated by J.P.: fixed date, added sale date, and abandoned date also to history
- March 13, 2010: New photos from James McCray
- February 6, 2010: New photos from J.P.
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
I would agree with nathan, that the bridge needs to be reopened, and I was taking a look at the photos James & I took, and I seen what you was talking about, and yeah the deck truss does rise above the deck.
I was looking at the photos of this bridge and it appears that the deck truss at the far end actually rises up above the deck at one end. Very unusual. This bridge should become a public bridge again, and all the trees around it removed so the bridge is secure and people can actually see it.
this bridge is on private property, with no trespassing signs on both sides of the bridge. but on the side that we had no access to, it has a curved gurder approach and a deck truss which is at downward angle as it drops to the curved approach. It has a very thin concrete deck on it. Wish that we could have walked on it.
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