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Bluestone River Bridge

Mercer County, West Virginia

Photos 

Bloch Road Pony Truss

Photo taken by C Hanchey in June 2010

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BH Photo #168365

Map 

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
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

Categories 

Bramwell, West Virginia (5)
Built 1930 (1,747)
Built during 1930s (11,765)
Lost (24,908)
Lost 2016 (273)
Lost during 2010s (3,296)
Mercer County, West Virginia (66)
One-lane traffic (7,612)
Owned by state (16,034)
Pony truss (16,230)
 Replaced by new bridge (16,711)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,102)
Total length 125-175 feet (5,933)
Truss (32,917)
Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. (192)
Virginia Bridge Co. (53)
Warren pony truss (3,370)
Warren truss (6,578)
West Virginia (1,490)

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
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Comments 

Bluestone River Bridge
Posted April 8, 2019, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Yup, they probably pushed the old one into the river with an excavator like usual...

Bluestone River Bridge
Posted April 8, 2019, by Tom Hoffman

Looks like its been replaced with a daggone modern pony truss.

Bluestone River Bridge
Posted January 20, 2014, by Anonymous

This bridge, also known as the Yon-Peraldo Bridge, is now doomed:

http://m.bdtonline.com/BDT/pm_103628/contentdetail.htm?conte...