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General Information

Other name(s): Tennessee River Railroad Bridge
Completion: 1920
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: main span:
Vertical lift bridge
main span:
Through truss bridge
Function / usage: Railroad (railway) bridge
Material: Steel bridge

Location

Location: , , ,
Crosses:
  • Tennessee River
Coordinates: 35° 6' 17.12" N    85° 14' 0.02" W
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Technical Information

Materials

truss steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Tenbridge is a vertical-lift railroad bridge over the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It has a main span of 310 feet (94 m).

The original span was a swing span with a center pivot that was originally built in ca. 1879/1880. It was replaced by a vertical lift span in 1917, but the lift towers and machinery were not installed until 1920. It remains a very busy crossing on the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway, a major subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Railway. The bridge carries two mainline tracks across the river.

The bridge is one of only three known nesting locations in Tennessee for peregrine falcons, a Tennessee endangered species.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Tenbridge" and modified on 12 November 2020 according to the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20012488
  • Published on:
    15/07/2004
  • Last updated on:
    11/11/2020
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