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Old 25 Bridge

Tishomingo County, Mississippi

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Another surprise at the end of our abandoned truss bridge tour, located right along the main road through Belmont, MS, right north of town. The bridge leads into cemetery and a couple of small local roads. Another bridge of nearly identical design existed several miles south of this until a couple of years ago, and at least two more still exist on the southern end of this old Illinois Central branch in Hackleburg and Haleyville, AL

Photo taken by Zachary S in January 2015

License: Released into public domain

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BH Photo #313843

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Facts 

Overview
Timber stringer bridge over Redmont Railroad on Old MS 25
Location
Tishomingo County, Mississippi
Status
Closed
History
Built 1960
Railroads
- Illinois Central Railroad (IC; ICG (1972-1988))
- Redmont Railroad (RRC)
Design
Timber stringer
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 20.0 ft.
Total length: 101.1 ft.
Deck width: 16.1 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+34.54483, -88.22233   (decimal degrees)
34°32'41" N, 88°13'20" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/387842/3823247 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Belmont
Average daily traffic (as of 2015)
50
Inventory number
BH 65511 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of October 2017)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 26.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Beam (16,987)
Built 1960 (354)
Built during 1960s (2,150)
Closed (2,760)
Doomed (1,070)
Illinois Central Railroad (629)
Mississippi (704)
 Owned by railroad (13,601)
Redmont Railroad (4)
Span length under 25 feet (7,119)
Timber stringer (4,361)
Tishomingo County, Mississippi (13)
Total length 100-125 feet (5,437)

Update Log 

  • January 15, 2015: Added by Zachary S

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Old 25 Bridge
Posted March 8, 2021, by Zachary S

Just such a sickeningly absurd and ridiculously stupid waste of funds since there's a level crossing just to the south on the same road. Honestly convinced road departments are actively trying to waste money on completely useless projects to destroy history for ugly modern crap to protect yearly budget or something. Very infuriating.

Old 25 Bridge
Posted February 14, 2021, by Lowry (lowry [at] oldsouthimages [dot] com)

This bridge appears to have been demolished now.

Old 25 Bridge
Posted May 20, 2018, by Stephanie Holder (historicsouthtish [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge is now closed with plans to demolish and replace with a new bridge. So sad.

Stephanie Holder