video: old US 19W in Tennessee

[agentsteel53]

featuring a nice truss bridge... and Motorhead!

Daniel Brim and I did this trip over Thanksgiving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGaBiTuZjA

[Scott5114]

I hate driving that kind of road at night.

[FLRoads]

Nice find on that truss bridge!! It ceases to amaze me how some of these old alignments handled traffic back in the day, but then again they did not have the massive vehicles we have today. 

[hbelkins]

If ever there was a US highway crying out for decommissioning, it's 19W. Most of it is co-signed with either US 11E or US 23/I-26. The only part that stands alone is a twisting, narrow, mountainous highway that carries only local traffic. As much as I like the split routes, I'd do away with this one. I'd make US 19E US 19 and give 19W state designations in Tennessee and North Carolina.

[hbelkins]

featuring a nice truss bridge... and Motorhead!

Daniel Brim and I did this trip over Thanksgiving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGaBiTuZjA

OK, where is that? Looks like a relatively flat road surface. Is this somewhere south of Johnson City?

[agentsteel53]

I do not remember exactly, other than that it is within 5-10 miles of the NC state line.  It is maybe the one flat spot in the entire region!

[hbelkins]

I do not remember exactly, other than that it is within 5-10 miles of the NC state line.  It is maybe the one flat spot in the entire region!

That's definitely an old alignment. The existing alignment, narrow and curvy as it may be, is striped and doesn't have a one-lane bridge.

[agentsteel53]

yes, definitely an old alignment - it parallels a road that, if I recall correctly, is a 4-lane undivided expressway.

[hbelkins]

yes, definitely an old alignment - it parallels a road that, if I recall correctly, is a 4-lane undivided expressway.

In that case, it would be 19E, not 19W.

[DBrim]

I was half asleep when I took the video (I drove later in the night, so I was resting up for it), so the title was just a mistake on my part.