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Spook Bridge, located on the county line between Brooks County and Lowndes County in the U.S. state of Georgia, is an abandoned open spandrel arch bridge crossing the Withlacoochee River on a closed section of Old Quitman Highway (also known as Blue Springs Road, formerly U.S. Route 84). [1]
A dam and replacement bridge were built and the river was rerouted. [3] The bridge is 1,184 feet (361 m) long in total, with a deck width of 16 feet (4.9 m). Its main span is a 798 feet (243 m) Warren-type pony truss bridge suspended by cables from rocker type towers. The span is held by two steel cables 5.75 inches (0.146 m) in diameter and ...
The Vance Creek Bridge is an arch bridge in the Satsop Hills of Mason County, Washington that was built for a logging railroad owned by the Simpson Logging Company in 1929. At 347 feet (106 m) in height, it is the second-highest railroad arch in the United States after the nearby High Steel Bridge . [ 2 ]
The Bahia Honda Rail Bridge is a derelict railroad bridge in the lower Florida Keys connecting Bahia Honda Key with Spanish Harbor Key.It was originally part of the Overseas Railway, but the state of Florida purchased it from the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) after the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and converted it for automobile use as part of the Overseas Highway in 1938. [3]
Horton Mill Bridge: Extant Lattice truss: 1935 2002 Covered Bridge Circle Calvert Prong of the Little Warrior River: Oneonta: Blount: AL-204: Tennessee River Railroad Bridge Extant Vertical-lift bridge: 1870 1989 SR 43 (former) Tennessee River
In 2019, the city offered to take ownership of the bridge to prevent demolition. [9] The city held a design contest for reuse of the bridge; the winning proposal, announced in June 2021, would turn the trestle sections of the bridge into a public park. [10] On June 29, 2021, the bascule span was damaged by a fire of unknown origin. [11]
In 1986, the Hillman Bridge built in 1925 by the Federal Aid Project and designed by the RHH Blackwell Company of East Aurora, New York [4] was abandoned and replaced by a new bridge across the river. [5] [6]
Abandoned in 1983, it is part of an Amtrak proposal to introduce passenger service between Scranton, Pennsylvania and New York City, a distance of 135 mi (217 km). The bridge is 1,452 feet (443 m) long and 65 ft (20 m) high from water level to the top of the rail. It is composed of five 150 ft (46 m) spans and two 120 ft (37 m) spans.