(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges;
Satellite)
FG&A =
Florida, Gulf and Atlantic
Andrew Waldo
posted three photos with the comment:
Milton, Florida: Pile Trestle/Draw Span Bridge 15 over Blackwater River and Bridge Tender’s House, Louisville & Nashville Railroad. With approaches and Draw Span included, Bridge 15 SB (east) out of Milton was about 604’ in total. Primary construction took place in 1899 for this bridge, with major maintenance occurring in 1909, 1910, and 1913. The Bridge Tender’s House at north end of Bridge 15 was estimated built in 1882. The photographs of the bridge draw span were taken on 14 February 1917 and of the Bridge Tender’s House on 25 February 1917.
Credit: National Archives & Records Administration, ICC Engineering Field Notes, Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Florida. Digital Image Collection of Andrew Waldo.
All photos and Documents from these records were hand-scanned at the Archives from the originals by, and are in the Digital Image Collection of, Andrew Waldo. For high-resolution scans in archival .tif format, PM me.
Derek Reuben: Today, The Florida, Gulf And Atlantic Railroad Operates, This Trackage (Former L&N/CSXT Railroad) 2025
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jessie.whittle Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
The Blackwater River railroad trestle. Taken from around the middle of the bridge, facing east. My dad worked on this bridge when they still used gas lanterns to light it at night, and he took us out on it to show us how it works. Good timing, too, as the bridgetender told us that they are going to start building a new bridge in January [2009]! |
It doesn't look like it got replaced in 2009.
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| 2012 Photo taken by Calvin Sneed via BridgeHunter |
About half of the contemporary photos show it open, so both boats and trains go through here.
I wonder how much longer the boats had to wait for the train to finally arrive.
I've seen road bridges with fancy lighting, but this is the first railroad bridge I've seen lit up this well.
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