Eastern Railroad Discussion > Another Flat Car Bridge

Here is another flat car bridge built by Army Corps of Engineers after Helene flood near Asheville.  This bridge is in Back Mountain on a heavily traveled road.  it crosses the Swanannoa.   

1 Overview of bridge

2.  The old car number

3.  Build date   

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Just 100 yds behind this bridge the flood devastated this shopping center.  The parking lot has been cleared.

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Very interesting repurposing of a flatcar!

Dan

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First-rate coverage of this flat car bridge.
Bob

All the ones we’ve handled out of storage for this have been TTXX mark. As I understand, TTX donated a hundred or so flats to the area. All are cars they were holding in inventory that were at or over their 50 year mark. TTX doesn’t automatically retire and scrap flats at the 50 year mark - they grade them then hold them for a year or two as candidates for 65 year ILS (increased life service) rebuilds.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/25 07:44 by scraphauler.

Almost looks like they used two flatcars side by side based on the width of the bridge.   Great re-use.

the Flood gallery was aptly named

cjvrr Wrote:
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> Almost looks like they used two flatcars side by
> side based on the width of the bridge.   Great
> re-use.

Good spot!  It's hard to read the car number in the shot with the Mazda for comparison, but based on the shadow of the guard rail and not being able to see the bottom of the car's tires I would say this bridge is two flat cars wide.

That's a great thing that they were repurposed. What's the load rating now?

Victor Baird