Damascus Virginia iron bridge showing just how much debris piled up when the river rose from Hurricane Helene

The iron bridge is located along the Virginia Creeper Trail, about a mile outside of Damascus, where the trail crosses Whitetop-Laurel Creek. 

The bridge is part of the old Virginia Creeper Railroad, a former railroad line that was transformed into a National Recreation Trail in the late 1980s. It was a Rail Trail hall of famer in 2014

The Virginia-Carolina Railroad, a predecessor of the Creeper, was built in 1907 to connect Abingdon to Damascus.

I'm pretty sure this is the same bridge I posted about when I was showing the really nice rails to trails photos of this, years before the hurricane flood damage https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/08/virginia-travel-writers-and.html

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I'm guessing it's part of the Appalachian Trail, but I didn't see anything to confirm that.