Barren Fork River Bridge
Photos
East Shore to West Shore, underneath easternmost span
4 Warren (PTC) through truss spans over Barren Fork River on State Highway 286. Welcome to Middle Tennessee, where most "Camelback" Warren Through Truss Bridges go to die.
Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in October 2009
BH Photo #147389
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Four-span Through Camelback, Subdivided Warren Trusses (PTC) over Barren Fork River on State Highway 286
- Location
- McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1930; rehabilitated 1971, replaced 2009
- Builder
- - Tennessee State Highway Department
- Design
- Four-span Through Camelback, Subdivided Warren Trusses with Polygonal Top Chords
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 142.0 ft.
Total length: 768.0 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.6 ft.
- Also called
- Fernando C Boyd Sr Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.68083, -85.78111 (decimal degrees)
35°40'51" N, 85°46'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/610299/3949233 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- McMinnville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
- 5,240
- Inventory numbers
- TN 89033930001 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 32719 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of May 2015)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 96 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- March 2, 2014: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- July 23, 2011: Updated by C Hanchey: Bridge has been replaced
- August 25, 2010: New photos from Calvin Sneed
- July 10, 2010: New Street View added by Calvin Sneed
- February 1, 2010: Updated by Calvin Sneed: Updated Polygonal Top Chords from records
- December 31, 2009: Updated by Calvin Sneed: Actually, T-DOT's Region 1 Resident Bridge Engineer says these are Through Camelback, Subdivided Warren Trusses. I sent a picture for confirmation.
- December 13, 2009: Updated by Matthew Ridpath: This is actually a Warren through truss
- October 10, 2009: New photos from Calvin Sneed
Sources
- Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Matthew Ridpath
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
Comments
Turns out the new deck was for the new bridge that was about to start construction, replacing the through trusses. I was able to grab pictures about 2 months before the trusses were removed. T-DOT strengthened the decking and then took out the trusses, but utilized the original bridge piers.
It's getting it's deck removed in the photos,dude.It's not getting a new one.
Does anyone know the story on this bridge? Google maps shows it's not there, but Calvin's photos from 2009 show it getting a new deck. Why would you put a new deck on a bridge and replace it in the same year unless some local politician got a fat kickback?
Actually, these spans are Through Camelback, Subdivided Warren Trusses. I sent a picture to T-DOT's bridge engineer for Region 1-Knoxville, who checked with pghbridges.com, the same place I use.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/tn/warren/89033930001/
The easy thing to remember is that TDOT's policy is to demolish and replace all truss bridges in the state. This was noted in a newspaper article a few years ago. It is extremely disappointing to know that TDOT plans to destroy an entire category of historic bridges, but I am just passing along what I heard.