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CSX - Ashepoo River Bridge

Colleton County, South Carolina

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CSX - Ashepoo River Bridge

Scherzer type

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013

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BH Photo #283651

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Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Ashepoo River on CSX Railroad
Location
Ashepoo, Colleton County, South Carolina
Status
Open to traffic
Builder
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Railroads
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL)
Design
Deck plate girder rolling lift
Approximate latitude, longitude
+32.74203, -80.55231   (decimal degrees)
32°44'31" N, 80°33'08" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/541943/3622777 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Green Pond
Inventory number
BH 60994 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Ashepoo, South Carolina (1)
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (96)
Bascule (1,066)
Built 1927 (863)
Built during 1920s (9,956)
CSX Railroad (1,668)
Colleton County, South Carolina (5)
Deck girder (5,777)
Girder (10,299)
 Have street view (27,065)
Movable (2,987)
Navigable waterway (2,154)
Open (39,976)
Owned by railroad (12,498)
Plate girder (7,983)
Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. (125)
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (198)
South Carolina (514)

Update Log 

  • August 11, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • October 20, 2017: New photos from Douglas Butler
  • September 6, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • June 8, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • June 12, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • May 17, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • Geoff Hubbs
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CSX - Ashepoo River Bridge
Posted August 11, 2020, by Geoff Hubbs (geoffrey [dot] hubbs [at] att [dot] net)

Listed in TT 2 Oct 27, 1957 as "straight railed, bolted up, open only on advance notice"

CSX - Ashepoo River Bridge
Posted August 11, 2020, by Ron Stafford (wag2200 [at] verizon [dot] net)

Closed since at least 1949, counterweights removed.

CSX - Ashepoo River Bridge
Posted October 20, 2017, by Anonymous

Website makes no mention of creative commons, ergo they're copyrighted.

Good news though, the site's frontpage has a link to the person's email so you can ask about usage: http://www.semanchuk.com/