Currently in Alabama, heard cryptic news about a bridge collapse between Salisbury and Charlotte last night. Many bridges and spans on that section, can anybody provide further details?

dave

I can find no such news on the Charlotte and Salisbury newspaper websites.

It appears that you are somehow blending the news of a derailment at the south end of Linwood Yard, near Spencer, which blocked the main tracks pretty badly, with last week's derailment and truss bridge collapse on the Lake States Railway near Oscada, Michigan:

http://www.iosconews.com/articles/2005/02/15/news/news01.txt