NS/CNO&TP/Sou/CS "Tenbridge" over Tennessee River in Chattanooga, TN

(Bridge Hunter, Historic Bridges, Satellite)

To explain the title, Cincinnati built and owns the Cincinnati Southern route, but it now leases it to the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Norfolk Southern.

Redeker Rail Video & Photography posted
Great day around the Chattanooga area yesterday with Alex Minahan. I had some work to take care of and wanted to get NS 8025 the Monongahela on NS 202 so it was worth the 10 hour round trip from Memphis. Also finally got my 1st drone shot of TennBridge and spent some time around Nickajack Lake with the drone for the first time as well. We did have to drive up to the Tennessee River bridge in Loudon, TN on the NS Knoxville District to get the 8025 in good light but it was worth it!! Only 2 NS Heritage units remaining for me now; NYC & PC leading in good light!! 4/4/2020

NS Train 143 crosses Tenn Bridge in Chattanooga
Dennis DeBruler Note the round stone pier. There must have been a swing span here originally.

Another view of the pivot pier.

Norfolk Southern posted

It’s already time to flip the page in your NS Calendar? JULYin'! 😉📆 This month’s photo was taken by Train Dispatcher Scott Williams.  

At our Network Operations Center in Atlanta, Scott works the overnight shift directing trains across a busy corridor that stretches more than 200 miles in northeastern Ohio. Being a Youngstown, Ohio native, Scott now oversees the very territory he grew up in! 

During a weekend outing with friends in Chattanooga, Scott captured this southbound double-stack intermodal train rolling across Tenbridge, a vertical lift span over the Tennessee River. 

Thank you, Scott, for sharing your photo and keeping our trains moving!

NS Locomotives , Equipment and its Predecessors posted
Train 952 on Tenbridge.
[Note the Chickamauga Dam in the background.]

A better view of the bridge and the dam's construction.

NS Locomotives, Equipment and its Predecessors posted
Three yeas ago [2020], the PC heritage unit lead a short office car train into Chattanooga Tn.

A newer photo from the vantage point.

NS Locomotives, Equipment and its Predecessors posted
Train 29F is seen crossing tenbridge as it arrives at Chattanooga Tn. Aug 2023

Redeker Rail Video & Photography also posted

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Unfortunately, the one day I stayed in Chatanooga, it was cloudy, and sometimes rainy.

Abby caught it in better weather.

Abby Norman posted
Here’s Chickamauga Dam Railroad Bridge in Chattanooga, TN

Note the round stone pier. There must have been a swing span on it.

Norfolk Southern Corp posted

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Pictured: Train 229 hauls its double-stack load across the Tenbridge and the Tennessee River in Chattanooga.

NS Locomotives , Equipment and its Predecessors posted
Grain train 42G seen crossing Tenbridge. Chattanooga Tn June 2021

 

SpeedShot Train Photography posted
A Norfolk Southern train Crossing the Tennessee River in Chattanooga Tn / August 2019
Roger Riblett shared
[A nice view of the dam in the background.]

Joseph Giunto posted
Thanks for the add! Two trains cross each other at Ten Bridge in Chattanooga, TN 3/18
Jeff Lewis The bridge tender's building looks like a small house.
[Note the crane and cofferdam on the right for the work on the lock. I added a couple of my photos as comments]

Joseph C. Hinson Photography posted

Joseph C. Hinson Photo

Chattanooga, Tn

Oct. 2014

Todd Horton posted seven photos with the comment: "Former Southern Railway Lift Bridge At Chickamauga Dam Across The Tennessee River."

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Shane Thomas posted
I'm sure this has been posted somewhere in this group before. Here is the Tenbridge, crossing the Tennessee River at Chickamauga Dam. Originally built in 1880 as a swing bridge, it was rebuilt in the 1920's as a lift bridge. I remember growing up wondering who lived in the little house at the top. I have been told that it still lifts but I have never seen it up. Here is a great YouTube video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMU21FMREC8

 

Chris Ness posted
Chattanooga Norfolk-Southern Draw Bridge
Randall Hampton shared

Marty Bernard posted three photos with the comment: 

A Major Norfolk Southern Bridge Needs Location Help

NS SD50 6524 built July 1984 and sold to NREX 6524.  Karl Miller photo circa 1990.

[EDIT] It's the Tenn Bridge over Tennessee River in Chattanooga.

Marty Bernard shared

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Joseph C. Hinson Photography postedThe only RoadRailer train I ever shot. 

Original caption - On October 19, 2014 a Norfolk Southern Triple Crown train cruises over the Tennessee River into Chattanooga from points westbound. This is a vertical lift bridge near the Chickamauga Dam and Highway 153. 

NS 9210, a General Electric Dash 9, is on lead. The locomotive was built in 1998.

[Note the 2014 date and the cofferdam. They have been working on that lock for over a decade.]

 

E.m. Bell posted
A Southbound directors special rubles across the Tennessee River at Tenbridge after a fairly quick run from Cincinnati.    Chattanooga Tennessee 2012   3rd district of the CNOTP

Mike Ray commented on the above post
similar

Note the round, cut-stone pier in some of the photos on this page. That would have held the swing span of the previous bridge.

This bridge has its own facebook page: Tenbridge.

"Line is owned by and was built for the Cincinnati Southern Railway which is owned by the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. The Line was leased to Southern Railroad, now part of Norfolk Southern." [Bridge Hunter]

Jim Pearson Photography posted a photo with the comment:

September 9, 2017 - A southbound Norfolk Southern freight train, with NS 1081 and CSXT 9039 as power, head south across the Tenbridge over the Tennessee River as it heads into Chattanooga, TN, in the glow of the setting sun, as a northbound freight waits for it to pass. The Tenbridge is a vertical-lift railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has a main span of 310 feet.
The original span was a swing span with a center pivot that was originally built in ca. 1879/1880, but is no longer raised for river traffic however. It was replaced by a vertical lift span in 1917, but the lift towers and machinery were not installed until 1920. It remains a very busy crossing on the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, a major subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway. The bridge carries two mainline tracks across the river.

Jim Pearson Photography posted a photo with the comment:

September 8, 2017 - A northbound Norfolk Southern freight train, with NS 8973 leading and Nickel Plate Road Heritage Unit 8100 trailing as power, head north across the Tenbridge over the Tennessee River as it departs Chattanooga, TN.
The Tenbridge is a vertical-lift railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has a main span of 310 feet.
The original span was a swing span with a center pivot that was originally built in ca. 1879/1880, but is no longer raised for river traffic however. It was replaced by a vertical lift span in 1917, but the lift towers and machinery were not installed until 1920. It remains a very busy crossing on the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, a major subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway. The bridge carries two mainline tracks across the river. #jimstrainphotos #kentuckyrailroads #trains#nikond800 #railroad #railroads #train #railways #railway

6:24 drone video on YouTube It offers some nice views of the lock construction as well.