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Carroll Jernigan commented on BridgeHunter:
This bridge was originally built by the Tennessee Central Railroad. It was used for passenger train access by TC trains to their passenger terminal in Harriman. Trains were turned on a "wye" track at the Emory Gap yard and then backed the last few miles across this bridge into Harriman. Southern Railroad acquired the bridge after the Tennessee Central bankruptcy in 1968. One of the photos shows a rail car on a track under the bridge. The track in that photo was owned by the Harriman and Northeastern Railroad. H≠'s passenger terminal was just to the photographers right. For several years after the beginning of the twentieth century the little town of Harriman was served by by up to five railroads simultaneously. (TC, H≠, L&N;, Southern and the CNOTP)
The Southern tracks on the west side of town were originally the
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific according to the 2004 SPV Map. the Southern tracks on the right were the ones that L&N used to access Harriman.
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| 1952/54 Harriman Quad @ 24,000 |
Was this bridge a predecessor of the current one?
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History's Mirror posted
"A train crosses over a wooden trestle bridge near Harriman, Roane County, Tennessee, in the 1890s, capturing the era of railroad expansion in the region. |
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