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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 ...
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 ...
A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of isosceles triangles joined at their apices by a plank or beam such as the support structure for a trestle table .
Plans for the bridge and overtures to the railroad company started in the 1850s but were put on hold until after the Civil War. The Hannibal Bridge under construction on Feb. 13, 1868.
The original Dale Creek wooden bridge under construction, Harper's Weekly, 1868. Originally built of wood, the trestle swayed in the wind as the first train crossed on April 23, 1868. [5] In the days following, as carpenters rushed to shore up the bridge, two fell to their deaths. The bridge's timbers flexed under the strain of passing trains. [6]
The present structure, built in 1887–88, is a five-span, two-track stone arch railroad bridge. The first crossing at this location was a 1,412 feet (430 m) series of 11 wooden Town lattice trusses constructed in 1829 for the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad , which was purchased by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and incorporated into its ...
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]
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.