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LN - Cumberland River Triangular Truss (1866)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren through truss bridge over Cumberland River on Louisville & Nashville Railroad
- Location
- Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1866, Replaced 1897
- Builder
- - Albert Fink of Lauterbach, Hesse, Germany (Design)
- Railroad
- - Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.17157, -86.77818 (decimal degrees)
36°10'18" N, 86°46'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/519948/4003001 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Nashville West
- Inventory number
- BH 73226 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 18, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: This is actually a Warren through truss
- August 18, 2016: Updated by Luke: Added photograph/Noted that the bridge was not a Fink truss
Related Bridges
- LN - Cumberland River Drawbridge (1897) (Successor)
- LN - Cumberland Swing Bridge (1858) (Predecessor)
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Luke, The diagram you posted is the bridge in Mr. Hoobler's book, with photo's made about 1884. If that is not a Fink truss, then there are two possibilities. They decided against the Fink design, or there was another bridge in between the 1867 and the 1897 bridge.
The attached images are from - Nashville, from the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, page 31. By James A. Hoobler. Arcadia Publishing, 1999.