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Frisco - Bayou Chico Bridge

Escambia County, Florida

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MSB&P - Chico Bayou Bridge

Pensacola FL

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in March 2013

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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BH Photo #284372

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Chico Bayou on St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (Nee Muscle Shoals Birmingham & Pensacola Railway)
Location
Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida
Status
Removed
History
Built 1918, Removed 1976
Railroads
- Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola Railway (MSB&P)
- St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (SLSF; Frisco)
Design
Deck plate girder bascule
Also called
MSB&P - Bayou Chico Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.40116, -87.24664   (decimal degrees)
30°24'04" N, 87°14'48" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/476308/3363264 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Pensacola
Inventory number
BH 61096 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bascule (1,084)
Built 1918 (505)
Built during 1910s (9,968)
Deck girder (6,299)
Escambia County, Florida (13)
Florida (681)
Girder (11,163)
Lost (28,385)
Lost 1976 (107)
 Lost during 1970s (939)
Movable (3,114)
Muscle Shoals, Birmingham & Pensacola Railway (1)
Pensacola, Florida (10)
Plate girder (8,719)
Railroad (16,447)
Scherzer-type rolling lift (70)
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway (224)

Update Log 

  • December 17, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • May 29, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added photograph
  • May 29, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • Luke

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