Rating:
46719
{74}%
5 votes
Austin Peay Bridge
Photos
Kbridge
Photo taken by TDOT
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BH Photo #183806
Description
The bridge is the only known extant K-truss in the Federal Highway Administration's Southeast Region. The bridge also is historically significant for its associations with the early development of Tennessee's Highway Department.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost K-Truss through truss bridge over Cumberland River on Tn 56
- Location
- Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built by the Nashville Bridge Company in 1924 and replaced 1994
- Builders
- - Montgomery and Parker Co. of Rockport, Indiana
- Nashville Bridge Co. of Nashville, Tennessee
- Design
- The bridge contains one 280-foot riveted K through truss that is flanked on each side by a
160-foot riveted Warren through truss with a polygonal top chord. The south approach
consists of two 28.5-foot concrete deck girder spans, and the north approach contains
twenty-three 53-foot concrete deck girder spans.
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 279.9 ft.
Total length: 1,693.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.37317, -85.65251 (decimal degrees)
36°22'23" N, 85°39'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/620874/4026182 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Gainesboro
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 2,680
- Inventory numbers
- TN 44SR0560009 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 46719 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of July 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 95.1 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- January 26, 2015: HAER photos posted by Dave King
- October 28, 2010: Added by J.P.
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- HAER TN-28 - Austin Peay Bridge, State Route 56 spanning Cumberland River, Gainesboro, Jackson County, TN