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Tunkhannock Viaduct, Historic Civil landmark at the American Society of Civil Engineers site; Norfolk Southern Railway takes over ownership of the Tunkhannock Viaduct in 2015. A Thing Colossal and Impressive, article by Pennsylvania Center for the book with extensive source listing for the structure.
Canton Viaduct is a blind arcade cavity wall in Canton, Massachusetts, built in 1834–35 for the Boston and Providence Railroad. [2]At its completion, it was the longest (615 ft [187 m]) and tallest (70 ft [21 m]) railroad viaduct in the world; today, it is the last surviving viaduct of its kind.
A viaduct is a bridge composed of several small spans for crossing a valley, dry or wetland, or forming an overpass or flyover. Pages in category "Viaducts in the United States" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
A viaduct is a specific type of bridge that consists of a series of arches, piers or columns supporting a long elevated railway or road. Typically a viaduct connects two points of roughly equal elevation, allowing direct overpass across a wide valley, road, river, or other low-lying terrain features and obstacles.
Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
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 Rockville Bridge is the longest stone masonry arch railroad viaduct ever built, [2] at 3,820 feet (1,160 m). It has 48 70-foot spans. [2] The bridge crosses the Susquehanna River about 5 miles (8 km) north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The eastern end is located in Rockville and the western end is just south of Marysville.
B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing, crossing the Potomac River between Sandy Hook, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; 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