1995

This is Buffalo Creek bridge, between Johnson City and Elizabethton. We're looking back toward Johnson City here. You can stand in Buffalo Creek here and hardly get wet, it's about 8 inches deep. You can walk out to the middle of it, as I did, on the rocks. There are 2 formed concrete supports, 2 formed concrete abutments with wing walls, and 2 of these supports that almost look homemade. I don't know what kind of support was here when this bridge was converted to a steel plate girder, but the concrete support here looks much newer than the large ones, and the steel support legs actually do look like the railroad made them. This was originally a wooden half-thru girder bridge, really interesting looking. I guess you can tell that I really like bridges, huh?