CSX/L&N #198 Bridges over Bayou Sara in Mobile, AL

#198_old:  (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter)

#198_2018:  (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

You seldom see a new swing bridge nor a plate girder bridge. But even the previous bridge was a girder bridge because this is a small bridge that is so close to the water level that it needs to be movable for recreational boats.

Jerry Floyd posted, cropped
New CSX swing bridge just installed at Bayou Sara creek 5 miles north of Mobile, Al. It is electric over hydraulic and will be ran remotely from Mobile, Al.
[I posted the link to the Flickr photo.]
Jerry Floyd Great pics.. I am still the bridge tender on the Bayou Sara bridge but hirail across most of these daily including Tensaw bridge which has yet to be replaced. Thanks for the post!
Dennis DeBruler When looking at the satellite images to find the bridges, I noticed the ballast was white, which normally means it is new. It looks like CSX is putting a lot of money into this route.
Jerry Floyd This part of the subdivision (M&M) goes thru the Mobile Tensaw delta with several stationary bridges along with five movable bridges thru the swamp. Heavy loaded coal trains along with constant erosion usually leads us to adding new ballast and keeping a surfacing team pretty busy thru the area.

Satellite
I saved the image because it caught the construction activity in progress.

Update:

Tony Flickr via BridgeHunter_old

Pixabay, cropped via BridgeHunter_2018

Andrew Waldo posted

Bayou Sara, Mobile-Tensas Delta, Bridge 198 and Bridge Tender's House, Mile 661, Louisville & Nashville Railroad. L&N's Bridge 198 over Bayou Sara had "S.T. Ballast Floor Pile Trestle Approaches and Thru Plate Girder Swing Span on Pile Abuts and Pier." As they appear in this photo, the spans and piers were built in 1900, the trestles in 1897 and 1913, and fenders in 1911. The Bridge Tender's House was built in 1891.

The bridge was photographed on 27 January 1917 and the Bridge Tender's House on 28 January 1918.

Credit: National Archives & Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Alabama. Digital Image Collection of Andrew Waldo.

For high-resolution scans in archival .tif format, PM me.

[I omitted the bridge house photo because it was an error.]

Andrew Waldo posted
Correction Post: Bayou Sara, Mobile-Tensas Delta, Bridge Tender's House, Louisville & Nashville Railroad. The photograph of the Bridge Tender's House I previously posted with L&N Bridge 198 over Bayou Sara properly belongs with Bridges 199/200 over Chickasaw Bogue, and will be posted again with those bridges. The photograph here is the correct Bridge Tender's House for Bridge 198 over Bayou Sara.