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Lookout Mountain Incline Railway Overpass #1
Photos
Photo taken by Ben Tate
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BH Photo #462581
Description
This is the first of two bridges, moving up the mountain, that carries the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway over Old Mountain Road.
Facts
- Overview
- Steel stringer bridge carrying Lookout Mountain Incline Railway over Old Mountain Road (NFA A848)
- Location
- Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee
- Status
- Open
- History
- Built 1930
- Railroads
- - Funicular
- Lookout Mountain Incline Railway
- Design
- Steel stringer
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 14.1 ft.
Total length: 18.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.00907, -85.33077 (decimal degrees)
35°00'33" N, 85°19'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/652310/3875322 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Chattanooga
- Average daily traffic (as of 1998)
- 40
- Inventory numbers
- TN 330A8480003 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 55399 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of February 1998)
- View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- December 17, 2019: New photos from Ben Tate
- January 31, 2013: Added by Andy Peters
Sources
- Andy Peters - anpete1971 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com