Rating:
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NS - Winchester Bridge
Photo
Beutiful Sight
N&W 611 going westbound the trestle at Winchester, Ohio on an excursion in 1994.
J. E. Landum, August 1994
View this photo at cincyrails.com
BH Photo #190746
Facts
- Overview
- Deck girder bridge over Elk Fork on Norfolk & Southern Railroad
- Location
- Winchester, Adams County, Ohio
- History
- Built 1975
- Railroads
- - Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Also called
- Cow Pasture Crossing
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.94593, -83.62338 (decimal degrees)
38°56'45" N, 83°37'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/272647/4314049 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Seaman
- Inventory number
- BH 46934 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 6, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Tall Bridges" due to height
- December 28, 2010: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: correction again Norfolk & Southern Railroad is the up-dated name of Norfolk & Western
- December 23, 2010: New Street View added by Daniel Hopkins
- December 22, 2010: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Corrected name of railroad it carries to Norfolk & Western
- December 10, 2010: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added name of the fork it crosses
- November 11, 2010: New Street View added by Nathan Holth
- November 11, 2010: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added status update
Sources
- Daniel Hopkins - chimera [at] clovermail [dot] net
- Nathan Holth
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I have no clue where a date of 1975 comes from, but that seems highly improbable given the design. It is possible that the bridge was repaired then, but it seems far more likely the superstructure dates to a range of 1900 to 1940.