The major CSX/L&N bridges in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta are:
#188 over Tensaw River
#193 over Mobile River
#196 over Big Bayou Canot (Amtrak wreck)
#198 over Bayou Sara
#199+#200 over Chickasaw Creek
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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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.
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Bing, at screen resolution |
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Bing, about half of screen resolution |
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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.] |
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