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FGAR - Blackwater River Swing Bridge

Santa Rosa County, Florida

Photos 

Photo taken by Jessica Whittle, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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BH Photo #196422

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss bridge over Blackwater River on CSX Railroad
Location
Milton, Santa Rosa County, Florida
Status
Open to traffic
Future prospects
Reportedly slated for replacement.
Railroads
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Florida, Gulf, & Atlantic Railroad (FGAR)
- Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
Design
Warren through truss swing.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.62156, -87.03342   (decimal degrees)
30°37'18" N, 87°02'00" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/496796/3387662 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Milton South
Inventory number
BH 48527 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

CSX Railroad (1,885)
Doomed (1,114)
Florida (698)
Florida, Gulf, & Atlantic Railroad (2)
Have street view (30,587)
Louisville & Nashville Railroad (311)
Milton, Florida (2)
Movable (3,195)
Navigable waterway (2,256)
 Open (41,560)
Owned by railroad (14,330)
Railroad (17,179)
Santa Rosa County, Florida (19)
Swing (1,624)
Through truss (19,311)
Truss (38,697)
Warren through truss (1,743)
Warren truss (7,222)

Update Log 

  • February 24, 2014: New photos from Jack Schmidt
  • October 7, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added city
  • October 7, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
  • June 21, 2012: New photo from Calvin Sneed
  • March 29, 2011: Added by Nathan Holth

Sources 

  • Nathan Holth
  • Flickr Photo - Elevation.
  • Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Douglas Butler
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Luke
  • Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
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Comments 

CSX - Blackwater River Swing Bridge
Posted November 28, 2021, by Riverrunner (islandmanmitch [at] yahoo [dot] com)

CSX sold the line from Pensacola to Jacksonville in June 2019 to Florida Gulf and Atlantic Railroad. The trestle works fine.

CSX - Blackwater River Swing Bridge
Posted December 14, 2020, by Tony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Perhaps the line has been deactivated. The bridge was listed as possibly being up for replacement... so that might not be a bad thing.

CSX - Blackwater River Swing Bridge
Posted December 14, 2020, by Mary Fuston (fuston59 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Just wanted to know if something was wrong with the train trussele because no train has ran and seen the bridge has been open for awhile now never seen it open that long ?