Rating:
75856
{60}%
2 votes
New River Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Bridge
Photo
Current bridge
Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in February 2017
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BH Photo #381137
Description
Burned by Union Forces May 10, 1864
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over New River on V&TRR
- Location
- Fairlawn, Pulaski County, Virginia, and Radford, Virginia
- Status
- Destroyed by fire
- History
- Built ca1855, burned by Union Forces 1864
- Railroad
- - Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
-
Total length: 780.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.13401, -80.58269 (decimal degrees)
37°08'02" N, 80°34'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/537065/4109820 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Radford North
- Inventory number
- BH 75856 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 2, 2017: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley
Sources
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
The curved piers are original to the 1888 N&W bridge. The V&T bridge was the original bridge on the current NS bridge. I have corrected the posting.