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
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| Street View, May 2022 |
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| David Copeland, Jan 2024 |
When was the girder span replaced by today's truss span?
Andrew Waldo posted three photos with the comment:
Chickasaw Bogue, Mobile-Tensas Delta, Bridge(s) 199 & 200 and Bridge Tender's House, Mile 666, Louisville & Nashville Railroad. This series of spans and approaches appears to have been the longest among L&N's bridges across the Mobile-Tensas Delta. The North Approach was 84 spans and 1056'10" long. The Swing Span, built in 1899 by LB&I Co, was 196' long. The South Approach was 36 spans and 463' long. The Engine House contained a horizontal, gasoline-powered Fairbanks, Morse & Co 15 HP water-cooled engine to operate the swing span. The bridge photographs, showing the swing span in two different positions, were taken on 27 January 1917.NOTE: This Bridge Tender’s House photo should not have been posted with Bridge 198 over Bridge Sara in my previous post. I have made a separate post with the correct Bridge Tender’s House for Bridge 198. The Bridge Tender’s House for Bridges 199/200 is repeated here to place it with the correct bridge.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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L&N had a few draw bridges in the Mobile, AL, area. But I think this is the only one with a truss swing span. I cannot figure out how the car got in that position. It looks like the span is open. But they won't turn the span if there is a car halfway on it.
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| Michael Stamey posted Train wreck - Mobile, Ala. One of the trains of the crack Louisville & Nashville R.R. - Pan American Ltd. - Bound from New Orleans to Cincinnati. Half over draw bridge. Stan Bentley: Reminiscent of the Amtrak derailment there in the early 90’s. |
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