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New River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Five-span Polygonal Warren through truss bridge over New River on VA 94
- Location
- Grayson County, Virginia
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1927; demolished 2011
- Builder
- - Roanoke Iron & Bridge Works of Roanoke, Virginia
- Design
- Polygonal Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 165.0 ft.
Total length: 912.1 ft.
Deck width: 23.3 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.6 ft.
- Also called
- Carico Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +36.64667, -80.97833 (decimal degrees)
36°38'48" N, 80°58'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/501936/4055677 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Galax
- Inventory numbers
- VA 8776 (Virginia bridge number)
BH 33702 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 15, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- March 30, 2010: Updated by Nathan Holth: Bridge is being replaced and demolished by VDOT.
- February 28, 2009: Updated by C Hanchey
Sources
- C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Nathan Holth
- News Article - Describes the replacement project.
- Geoff Hubbs
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/va/grayson/8776/
Never mind. This article from July 2011 stated that it was already being dismantled and should be gone in a few months. I'm guessing it's completely gone by now.
http://www.independencedeclaration.com/content/teamwork-play...