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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.
The Bellaire Bridge or Interstate Bridge is a privately owned, closed cantilever truss toll bridge that spans the Ohio River between Benwood, West Virginia (near Wheeling) and Bellaire, Ohio (near Martins Ferry). [1] It provided a link for commuters between southern Ohio border towns and West Virginia steel mills from 1926 to 1991. [2]
The Bellaire Bridge (now abandoned and closed) was filmed in the 1991 motion picture The Silence of the Lambs. The curved railroad viaduct and bridge over the Ohio, the B & O Railroad Viaduct, were featured in the 2010 film Unstoppable and is a registered historic structure.
B & O Railroad Viaduct: CSX Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line Bellaire and Benwood: 1870 Bellaire Bridge (Closed, Demolition planned) Bellaire and Benwood 1926 (closed 1991) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge: I-470: Brookside and Wheeling: 1985 Wheeling Suspension Bridge (crosses main channel only) WV 251
B & O Railroad Viaduct: 1871 1976-06-22 Bellaire ... Kingpost truss bridge, named for Ohio's second governor Knowlton Covered Bridge: ca. 1860, ca. 1890: 1980-03-11
Share of the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati Railway Company, issued 31. March 1890 1908 Ohio River and Western Railway Passenger Schedule [2]. The Ohio River & Western Railroad was a 112-mile long (180 km) narrow gauge railway that was incorporated in 1875 and operated from 1877 or 1878 till 1931.
B&O Railroad Bridge, crossing the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; B & O Railroad Viaduct, crossing the Ohio River in Bellaire, Ohio; Glenwood B&O Railroad Bridge, crossing the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Thomas Viaduct, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, crossing the Patapsco River between Relay and Elkridge, Maryland
B & O Railroad Viaduct, crossing the Ohio River in Bellaire, Ohio; Bahia Honda Rail Bridge, crossing the Bahia Honda Channel in the Florida Keys, Florida; Big Black River Railroad Bridge, crossing the Big Black River between Warren and Hinds counties, Mississippi