Rating:
77692
{71}%
1 vote
East River Norfolk Southern Railway Bridge (W)
Photos
Looking SE-North span
Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in June 2017
Enlarge
BH Photo #394794
Description
Dimensions and skew are estimates.
Facts
- Overview
- Warren deck truss with alternating verticals bridge over East River on NSRR
- Location
- Mercer County, West Virginia
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Railroads
- - Norfolk & Western Railway (N&W)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Design
- Warren deck truss with alternating verticals
- Dimensions
-
Span length: 130.0 ft.
Total length: 130.0 ft.
Deck width: 30.0 ft.
- Skew angle
- 40 degrees
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.35322, -80.87466 (decimal degrees)
37°21'12" N, 80°52'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/511100/4134064 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Narrows
- Inventory number
- BH 77692 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 20, 2017: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley
Sources
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
I would say the deck girder span is a modern span. I've seen spans similar to this with the fish belly type. Normally, they replace a truss.