Sinking Creek just on the south side of Johnson City where the ET leaves town on the way to Elizabethton. We're looking toward Elizabethton here. This is interesting (to me, anyway) for 3 reasons. Sinking Creek for one, runs for several miles toward the Watauga River, then disappears into the ground, evidently emptying into the Watauga River somewhere. Second is that the left wing wall of the abutment is double but not the one on the right, why, I'm not sure. And third, this plate girder bridge is evidently second hand. It's way too long for the space it's in. A bridge built for this space would only be about 2 feet longer than the open space. It looks as if the top of the abutments were moved outward to accommodate a longer than needed bridge. The ET used many hand-me-down bridges, especially all of the steel ones in the Doe River Gorge. They were originally wooden covered bridges, but were replaced with second-hand standard gauge steel bridges.