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Luther Draffen Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pair of steel through arch bridges over the Tennessee River on I-24
- Location
- Marshall County, Kentucky, and Livingston County, Kentucky
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1974 by the Allied Structural Steel Co.
- Builder
- - Allied Structural Steel Co. of Chicago, Illinois (Iron/Steel Manufacturer)
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 534.0 ft.
Total length: 2,107.4 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Deck width: 39.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 19.0 ft.
- Also called
- I-24 Tennessee River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.02650, -88.28556 (decimal degrees)
37°01'35" N, 88°17'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/385653/4098584 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Calvert City
- Inventory number
- BH 18885 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 17, 2013: New photo from Ben Tate
- March 14, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added Google Street View.
- September 11, 2006: Posted new photos
Comments
I-24 Tennessee River Bridge
The joints on this bridge are currently being replaced. A joint broke in April.
Tennessee River I-24 Bridge
Just to verify, all of the photos displayed are, in fact, of the I-24/I-69 bridge over the Tennessee River (Calvert City, KY). Photo #1 may be compared with the sunset image I've uploaded, taken this past Sunday (5-13-2012) from below the Kentucky Lake Dam (compare the hi-tension towers in the back ground).
Tennessee River I-24 Bridge
I think photo #1 is the bridge at Paducah
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With all respect, I am pretty certain that the caption of photo #4 (Ben Tate-August-2013 " As seen from Cumberland River US 62 Bridge") should read "....US 62 Tennessee River Bridge"
Maybe someone could correct the caption.