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Goose Creek Moneta Road Bridge

Bedford County, Virginia

Photos 

Looking NE

Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in August 2017

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BH Photo #402134

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Steel stringer bridge over Goose Creek on Moneta Rd
Location
Bedford County, Virginia
Status
Closed mid July and being demolished. New bridge being built in 2 stages. 1st stage open to traffic.
History
Built 1938
Design
Steel stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 105.0 ft.
Total length: 276.9 ft.
Deck width: 27.6 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.20867, -79.58173   (decimal degrees)
37°12'31" N, 79°34'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/625849/4118962 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Moneta
Inventory number
BH 78305 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (16,243)
Bedford County, Virginia (40)
Built 1938 (879)
Built during 1930s (11,928)
Fence guardrail (255)
Have street view (27,721)
Lost (26,398)
Lost 2020 (132)
 Lost during 2020s (203)
Owned by state (16,238)
Replaced by new bridge (17,889)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,461)
Steel stringer (6,493)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,354)
Virginia (1,283)

Update Log 

  • August 7, 2020: New photo from Jonathan Blankenship
  • September 14, 2017: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley
  • September 12, 2017: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley

Sources 

  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Jonathan Blankenship
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Goose Creek Moneta Road Bridge
Posted August 6, 2020, by Jonathan Blankenship (stormchaser [dot] 88 [dot] jb [at] gmail [dot] com)

Closed mid July 2020. Being replaced by new bridge.