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Southern - Ocmulgee River Bridge

Pulaski County, Georgia

Photos 

Portal View

Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

BH Photo #223189

Map 

Description 

The bridge provided for a single railroad track to cross the Ocmulgee River at River Mile 135.4 until 1988 when railroad operations were permanently abandoned.

-- Historic American Engineering Record

Facts 

Overview
Lost Warren swing bridge over Ocmulgee River on Southern Railway Company
Location
Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, Georgia
Status
Removed
History
Built 1890 Lost 1993
Builder
- Louisville Bridge & Iron Co. of Louisville, Kentucky
Railroads
- East Tennesse, Virginia & Georgia Railway (ETV&G)
- Southern Railway (SOU)
Design
Warren through truss swing bridge
Whipple through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.28672, -83.45762   (decimal degrees)
32°17'12" N, 83°27'27" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/268559/3574869 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Hawkinsville
Inventory number
BH 50892 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (9,068)
Beam (17,108)
Built 1890 (312)
Built during 1890s (3,278)
East Tennesse, Virginia & Georgia Railway (1)
Georgia (682)
HAER documented (1,132)
Hawkinsville, Georgia (2)
Laced endposts (166)
Lost (29,988)
Lost 1993 (478)
Lost during 1990s (4,176)
Louisville Bridge & Iron Co. (19)
Movable (3,156)
 Navigable waterway (2,224)
Pin-connected (5,037)
Pulaski County, Georgia (3)
Railroad (16,665)
Southern Railway (390)
Swing (1,591)
Through truss (17,858)
Timber stringer (4,390)
Truss (36,757)
Warren through truss (1,725)
Warren through truss with alternating verticals (49)
Warren truss (7,089)
Whipple truss (485)
Wrought Iron (426)

Update Log 

  • June 24, 2018: New photo from Mike Daffron
  • September 27, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "East Tennesse, Virginia & Georgia Railway", "Southern Railway", "Railroad"
  • January 10, 2012: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "Pin-connected", "Wrought iron", "HAER documented", "East Tennesse Virginia and Georgia Railroad Co.", "Navigable waterway"

Sources 

  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • HAER GA-75 - Ocmulgee River Bridge, Spanning Ocmulgee River, Hawkinsville, Pulaski County, GA
  • Douglas Butler
  • Mike Daffron - daffmikron [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comments 

Ocmulgee River Bridge
Posted September 28, 2012, by Robert Elder (robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Interesting. The Whipple span appears to have the same portal bracing as that Mill Creek Bridge in Fort Scott, Kansas that many of us have been pondering. Of course, I suspect both bridges were built by different companies, but perhaps the companies obtained materials from the same fabricator.

http://bridgehunter.com/ks/bourbon/mill-creek/