CSX/L&N Bridges over Mobile River near Mobile, AL

(1927 Swing Bridge Hunter, 2013 Lift Bridge Hunter, Satellite, photo of the predecessor swing bridge)

Andrew Waldo posted three photos with the comment:

Mobile River, Bridge 193, Mile 656, and Bridge Tender's House, Louisville & Nashville Railroad. L&N's Bridge 193 over the Mobile River included five Thru Pin connected Truss Spans each 140' long and one 257' long Swing Span, supported with brick abutments and screw piles. The five Truss Spans were built in 1890 by Edgemoor and the Swing Span by Pencoyd in 1900. The Bridge Tender's House was built in 1891.

The bridge photographs were taken on 26 January 1917, and the Bridge Tender's House photograph 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.

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Unlike the Bayou Sara Bridge where a swing bridge was replaced with a swing bridge, this swing bridge was replaced with a lift bridge because the Mobile River carries commercial traffic.

Jerry Floyd posted two photos with the comment: "CSX Mobile River draw bridge built in 2012 crosses Mobile River 10 miles north of Mobile, Al. is total electric and will soon be ran remotely from Mobile yard."

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The second photo cropped

At this level of "zooming," Bing still has the swing bridge image. But you can see they are building the piers for the lift bridge.

Bing, at screen resolution

At the next level of zooming, they are almost done with the lift bridge.

Bing, about half of screen resolution

Christopher Love posted
CSX having a bad day, I've heard.
Ted Gregory shared
CSX having a bad day on the M&M [Mobile & Montgomery] Sub...
[A combination of remote controlled and a PSR cut maintenance plan?
I wonder if tows can fit under the left side.]