Rating:
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NS - Albemarle Sound Trestle
Description
On July 5, 1957, at 12:02am, a freight train derailed off the trestle going 10 miles per hour. The wreck killed two people, and injured three. The trestle had suffered extensive damage from the wreck, as seen in pictures 3 through 8.GPS marks the southern end of the bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren through truss bascule bridge over Albemarle Sound on Norfolk Southern Railway
- Location
- Mackeys, Washington County, North Carolina
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built 1910 for the Suffolk & Carolina Railway, removed ca. 1987
- Builder
- - Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Southern Railway (SOU)
- Suffolk & Carolina Railway (S&C)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Dimensions
-
Total length: 26,664.0 ft. (5.0 mi.)
- Also called
- SOU - Albemarle Sound Trestle
S&C - Albemarle Sound Trestle
William F. Knorr Memorial Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.94014, -76.60317 (decimal degrees)
35°56'24" N, 76°36'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/355394/3978496 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Roper North
- Inventory number
- BH 48676 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 27, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 23, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 22, 2015: Updated by Luke: Re-tweaked entry to make the bridge go Washington County to Chowan County
- June 22, 2015: Updated by Clark Vance: Location from 1954 quad
- June 21, 2015: Updated by Luke: Tweaked entry to make it so the entry could go from Washington County to Chowan County
- March 18, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
- May 12, 2011: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
- May 10, 2011: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
Sources
- Jacob P. Bernard
- Norfolk Southern Railway Company Historical Society - ICC REPORT NO. 3763 Norfolk Southern Railway Company In Accident Near Edenton, N. C., On July 5, 1957.pdf
- Wikimapia - GPS + Imagery + Info
- Luke
- Kadkiak - Crusty Old Joe's Personal Photo Album - Image
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridges By Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co - Book
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
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My great grandaddy, Ernest Spruill of Edenton NC worked this railroad. I have pictures of the collapse.