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CAGY - Big Sand Creek Bridge

Carroll County, Mississippi

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Big Sand Creek Railroad Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in April 2010

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BH Photo #163615

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss bridge over Big Sand Creek on Columbus & Greenville Railway
Location
Carroll County, Mississippi
Status
Closed to all traffic
History
Built 1932 by the Virginia Bridge & Iron Co.
Builder
- Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. of Roanoke, Virginia [also known as Virginia Bridge Co.]
Railroads
- Columbus & Greenville Railway (CAGY)
- Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (G&W)
Design
Warren through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.51909, -90.04937   (decimal degrees)
33°31'09" N, 90°02'58" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/774057/3712734 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Browning
Inventory number
BH 45007 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1932 (993)
Built during 1930s (12,198)
Carroll County, Mississippi (11)
Closed (2,764)
Columbus & Greenville Railway (7)
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. (76)
Mississippi (704)
Owned by railroad (13,578)
 Railroad (16,533)
Through truss (17,255)
Truss (36,018)
Virginia Bridge & Iron Co. (206)
Virginia Bridge Co. (53)
Warren through truss (1,713)
Warren truss (7,051)

Update Log 

  • September 24, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Railroad"
  • April 23, 2010: Added by C Hanchey

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CAGY Big Sand Creek Bridge
Posted January 21, 2014, by Kelly Tucker (ktucker [at] csh [dot] msstate [dot] edu)

Hwy 219 turns into a dirt road before one reached the railbed. After you cross over the railbed you are in someones private yard and there isn't a road or even a trail to get to the bridge. The railbed is overgrown to a great extent and it would be difficult to reach the bridge from the west side.