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Western Ave. Bridge
Photos
View Of Asylum (Western) Avenue Viaduct In Setting From Northwest, Facing Southeast
Photo taken by George Hornal for the Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #313650
Description
It is one of the oldest known continuous deck girder bridge erected in the U.S. The contractor foe the bridge was the Foster-Creighton-Gould Company of Nashville, Tennessee. Today known as the Foster Creighton Company, it is a major firm in the southeast.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Stringer bridge over Southern Railway & Second Creek on TN-62
- Location
- Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1909; Replaced 1994
- Builder
- - Foster-Creighton-Gould Co. of Nashville, Tennessee
- Railroad
- - Southern Railway (SOU)
- Design
- Concrete stringer
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 47.9 ft.
Total length: 349.1 ft.
Deck width: 27.9 ft.
- Also called
- Asylum Avenue Viaduct
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.96464, -83.92615 (decimal degrees)
35°57'53" N, 83°55'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/236119/3983985 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Knoxville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 15,280
- Inventory numbers
- TN 47SR0620015 (Tennessee bridge number)
BH 54558 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of January 2018)
- 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: 80.7 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 14, 2015: HAER photos posted by Dave King
- November 20, 2012: Added by Jared Mixson
Sources
- Jared
- HAER TN-29 - Asylum Avenue Viaduct, Spanning Second Creek & Southern Railroad at State Route 62, Knoxville, Knox County, TN