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ACL - Appomattox River Bridge (Pocahontas Island)

Chesterfield County, Virginia, and Colonial Heights, Virginia

Photos 

Looking NE

Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in September 2017

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BH Photo #408793

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Appomattox River on Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Location
Chesterfield County, Virginia, and Colonial Heights, Virginia
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1909; Removed 1988
Railroads
- Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL)
- Family Lines System (FL)
- Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (SCL)
- Seaboard System Railroad (SBD)
Design
Deck plate girder
Also called
ACL Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.23969, -77.39942   (decimal degrees)
37°14'23" N, 77°23'58" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/287164/4124159 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Petersburg
Inventory number
BH 65882 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Appomattox River (10)
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (109)
Built 1909 (833)
Built during 1900s (7,989)
Chesterfield County, Virginia (12)
Colonial Heights, Virginia (2)
County line crossing (536)
Deck girder (6,699)
Family Lines System (80)
Girder (11,783)
Have street view (30,587)
 Lost (32,302)
Lost 1988 (200)
Lost during 1980s (1,659)
Petersburg, Virginia (26)
Plate girder (9,289)
Railroad (17,179)
Replaced by new bridge (22,014)
Seaboard Coast Line Railroad (218)
Seaboard System Railroad (108)
Virginia (1,446)

Update Log 

  • December 28, 2021: New photos from Dylan Clarke
  • November 1, 2017: New Street View added by Royce and Bobette Haley
  • March 7, 2017: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: County

Sources 

  • Luke
  • Flickr - Image
  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Dylan Clarke

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