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Brookside bridge collapse, 1978

Posted on March 29, 2016 | in Uncategorized | by
A span of the Brookside bridge over Clover Fork in Harlan County collapsed on March 13, 1978 when an Eastover Mining Company truck pulling a trailer with a bulldozer attempted to cross the bridge. The 60-year-old trestle bridge was on Ky. 38, a narrow twisting blacktop road that was a major highway for the mining and logging areas east of Harlan. Photo by Ron Garrison | Staff

A span of the Brookside bridge over Clover Fork in Harlan County collapsed on March 13, 1978, when an Eastover Mining Co. truck pulling a trailer with a bulldozer attempted to cross the bridge. The 60-year-old trestle bridge was on Ky. 38, a narrow twisting blacktop road that was a major highway for the mining and logging areas east of Harlan. Photo by Ron Garrison | Staff

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