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The Fourteenth Street Bridge, also known as the Ohio Falls Bridge, Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, Conrail Railroad Bridge or Louisville and Indiana (L&I) Bridge, is a truss drawbridge that spans the Ohio River, between Louisville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Indiana. Built by the Louisville Bridge Company and completed in 1870, [1] [2] the bridge ...
The new structure is the fourth bridge in downtown Louisville, joining the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge erected between spring 1961 and late 1963 at a cost of $10 million; the four-lane George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, constructed from June 1928 and to October 31, 1929; and the Big Four Bridge, which operated as a railroad bridge from ...
A drawing of the collapsed bridge. Big Four Bridge: Louisville, Kentucky: United States 10 October 1888: Caisson and truss 12 died when caisson flooded, 4 died when beam broke, 21 died when truss fell into river Conemaugh Viaduct Upriver from Johnstown, Pennsylvania: United States 31 May 1889: Stone,78-foot (24 m) high railroad bridge
The bridge, which carries 24,000 vehicles a day between Louisville and Jeffersonville, Ind., was to reopen Saturday evening. Semi dangling from bridge over Ohio River leads to dramatic rescue in ...
Contributing to the cause of the collapse was the failure of the Hamilton County Engineer's Office to submit the bridge design plans to the Ohio Department of Transportation for review as required by state law. [1] The one-lane bridge was intended to carry U.S. 52 traffic while a replacement for the 93-year-old Miamitown Bridge was being built.
LAKE TWP. – North Canton Podiatry patients have been left without answers after their doctor's office abruptly closed. Georgia Meyer began seeing Dr. Priyanka Mude at 8328 Cleveland Ave. NW ...
Jeffersonville and Louisville 1929 Spirit of Jefferson Ferry: Temporary ferry service due to closure of Sherman Minton Bridge; no longer used after the bridge reopened in February 2012. Jeffersonville and Louisville John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge: I-65 (southbound traffic) Jeffersonville and Louisville
On January 17, 1949, the bridge was renamed in honor of George Rogers Clark, recognized as the founder of Louisville and neighboring Clark County, Indiana. [6] The bridge was rehabilitated in 1958. There was a movement in the 1950s to restore tolls, as traffic on the bridge had reached capacity and funding was needed for an additional bridge ...