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A train passing over the trestle in 1991. The Holcomb Creek Trestle, also known as the Dick Road Trestle, is a wooden railroad trestle bridge in Washington County, Oregon, United States, on Dick Road near the unincorporated community of Helvetia. Spanning 1,168 feet (356 m), it is thought to be the longest wooden railroad trestle still in use ...
The Carrollton Viaduct, located over the Gwynns Falls stream near Carroll Park in southwest Baltimore, Maryland, is the first stone masonry bridge for railroad use in the United States, built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, founded 1827, and one of the world's oldest railroad bridges still in use for rail traffic. Construction began in ...
The Erie Railroad Company built a wooden trestle bridge over the Genesee River just above the Upper Falls in the mid-1800s. Construction started on July 1, 1851, and the bridge opened on August 14, 1852. [2] At the time, it was the longest and tallest wooden bridge in the world. [3] In the early morning hours of May 6, 1875, the bridge was ...
The Pennsylvania Railroad Old Bridge over Standing Stone Creek, also known as the Conrail Old Bridge over Standing Stone Creek, is an historic, American, multi-span, stone arch bridge that spans Standing Stone Creek and is located in Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]
Scroll through our archive images that show the process of the Hannibal Bridge being built in Kansas City in the late 1860s. It’s rare to have so many photographs in The Star’s archive from ...
The trusses consist of wooden diagonals and iron rod verticals. The bridge has a total width of 20 feet (6.1 m) and an internal width of 13.5 feet (4.1 m). The railroad tracks, which have been removed, were original laid directly on the deck timbers. The bridge's exterior consists of vertical board siding covered by a metal roof. [2]
Railroad bridges no longer used by rail traffic in the United States. These structures may by abandoned or used by another type of traffic. If bridge was later destroyed, also put it into Category:Demolished bridges in the United States. See also Category:Former road bridges in the United States
The B&O Railroad's first bridge across the Ohio River, built in 1857, served a rail line through Parkersburg, West Virginia. But the growing center of Chicago, Illinois, made a span between Benwood, West Virginia, and Bellaire more desirable. In 1865, the B&O obtained the Central Ohio Railroad and later the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad.