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Bluestone River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pony truss bridge over Bluestone River on Bloch Rd (CR 20/5) in Bramwell
- Location
- Bramwell, Mercer County, West Virginia
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1930, replaced 2016
- Builder
- - Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. of Roanoke, Virginia [also known as Virginia Bridge Co.]
- Design
- Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 65.9 ft.
Total length: 136.2 ft.
Deck width: 15.1 ft.
- Also called
- Yon-Peraldo Memorial Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.32575, -81.31157 (decimal degrees)
37°19'33" N, 81°18'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/472396/4131054 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Bramwell
- Average daily traffic (as of 2012)
- 800
- Inventory number
- BH 35376 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of August 2014)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 12.2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- September 15, 2019: Updated by Mike Kerkau: Builder
- April 8, 2019: Updated by Mike Kerkau: Updated per comments and new photos
- April 8, 2019: New photos from Timothy and Joann Phillips
Sources
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Timothy and Joann Phillips
- Mike Kerkau - mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Bluestone River Bridge
Looks like its been replaced with a daggone modern pony truss.
Bluestone River Bridge
This bridge, also known as the Yon-Peraldo Bridge, is now doomed:
http://m.bdtonline.com/BDT/pm_103628/contentdetail.htm?conte...
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Yup, they probably pushed the old one into the river with an excavator like usual...