1937 Aban/.../ACL+Road Bridge over Intracoastal Waterway at Myrtle Beach, SC

(Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; 3D Satellite)

When it was built, it carried the road as well as the railroad. It seems that plate girders instead of trusses are used with rolling bridges more frequently in the South than in the Midwest.

Street View

We can get a nice view of the arc member on which it rolls and the horizontal rack and pinion gear that is used to raise it.

Street View

Ted Gregory posted three photos with the comment:

Quite an imposing structure sits across the Intercoastal Waterway.

This bridge is ACL heritage and was used to reach Myrtle Beach.

Hoping RJ Corman, which is in the middle of upgrading this line to the west and north, sees value in rebuilding this bridge and restoring service the remainder of the way to Myrtle Beach.

My pics Dec 29, 2019

[The comments indicate that the only industry that was rail served on the other side of the bridge is a lumber company and that they now transload the lumber from the mainland side.] 

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Bobby Glendinning commented on Ted's post
Here's a picture I took from the ICWW

Bobby Glendinning commented on Ted's post
Another picture from 2007 when the Carolina Southern Railroad was servicing 84 Lumber by rail.
Bobby Glendinning posted
Myrtle Beach drawbridge. July 2007.
Mark Massa: RJ Corman runs that section of track.
Dan Kleinhenz: Interesting how they balanced the bridge out by adding the concrete slab.
Ben Rohling: It’s had all the copper stolen….

Ted Gregory posted again in a Towers group with these two photos added.

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This appears to be the same bridge.

Brandon Muir posted

The Pine Island Drawbridge over the Intracostal Waterway in South Carolina. From it's build date in 1937 it was the primary traffic bridge over the canal until the opening of highway 501, seen in the background of this image.

Raised and locked since 2011, it had risen from the dead once before in 2001 after sitting dormant since 1987.

The former Atlantic Coast Line Railway built the line but today it is owned and operated by RJ Corman.  Will enough funding and new rail business ever be found to warrant the use of the bridge again?