Monday, February 25, 2019

1899 CSX/C&O New River Bridge near Prince, WV

(Bridge HunterHistoric Bridges; B&T, BlogSatellite)

The NS/CNO&TP also has a New River Bridge.

ORDERS Construction

Walter Langston shared his post with the comment: "the train trestle and hiway bridge prince west Virginia new river is flooding." I include his photos of the bridge built in 2015 because its piers look so spindly compared to the lateral force they have to endure. I wonder how deep bedrock is here.

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I used street view to see the height of a normal river flow. The street view is older than 2015 because traffic is still routed over the old bridge. But I was able to find a location on the bridge so that I could see all three piers between the truss members.
Street View
Another data point as to the normal river level.
David Storey, this site has four more photos of the bridge

ORDERS Construction

ORDERS Construction
A
 reason the C&O built in this difficult terrain.
AppalachianRailroadModeling
Island Creek coal facility near Prince, WV, 1969 -Donald Haskel
[Doing a Google search finds results for Holden, WV; but not Prince, WV.]

Ted Gregory posted
The beauty of a railroad bridge.
My pic 
April 2023
Charlie Easton: Skewed AND curved? Now that's fascinating.
Ted Gregory also posted with the same comment
Dennis DeBruler: Why are you keeping the location of this bridge a secret? And which railroad owns it?
Ted Gregory: Dennis DeBruler Prince WV.
C&O/ Chessie/ CSX

Denis DeBruler commented on Ted's answer
Thanks. The skew is obvious in the satellite image, but I had to look real close to see the bend in the truss line. The bend looks much more dramatic in the photo. Then I remembered that you probably took this photo with a telephoto lens. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Rn9uWtRnN5MsU9cv6
Ted Gregory: Dennis all correct. It was not actually a telephoto. It was my Note 20 cell phone. I just was standing at the end of the bridge zoomed a little, and shot down the length of it.You can't get the entire structure if you zoom in from this perspective. The skew is more visible from the TOR or train crew's perspective. The spans are not curved. They are tangent just not aligned to handle the curvature of the track.

Now that the new bridge is done and further away from the railroad bridge, I can get a better street view.
Street View, Mar 2025


1 comment:

  1. "Island Creek coal facility near Prince, WV, 1969 -Donald Haskel
    [Doing a Google search finds results for Holden, WV; but not Prince, WV.]"

    There was an Island Creek coal mine at Terry, WV, across the river from Prince, WV which was a spur/'branch' reached by a bridge. This may be the reason why a search of Prince didn't find any results.

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