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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.
Jizera Railway Bridge, crossing the Jizera River between KoĊenov and Tanvald, Czech Republic; Jonava railway bridge, crossing the Neris in Jonava, Lithuania; Kerch railway bridge, crossing the Kerch Strait between Krasnodar Krai, Russia and Crimea; Koblenz Aare railway bridge, crossing the River Aare in Aargau canton, Switzerland
A locomotive and ten flat cars remain entombed with at least one rail worker, killing several others whose bodies were eventually recovered. A photograph staged by the three railroads in 1950 The triple crossing has been a Richmond attraction for railfans for over 100 years, although the number of photographic angles decreased in the 1990s due ...
It was finished in December 1906 and, at that time, was the longest rail trestle in the United States and the third longest bridge of its kind in the world. It has 18 towers for support. Other trestles constructed since that time are longer, such as the Hi-Line Railroad Bridge in Valley City, North Dakota, which is 3,860 feet (1,180 m) long.
The original bridge was replaced in 1858 by a timber trestle bridge carrying two tracks [4] with the tight curve of the original railway removed by rebuilding the bridge on a more oblique angle, as seen today. [5] The current bridge was designed by the Victorian Railways and the construction contract was let to David Munro & Co in 1886, the ...
The rail crossing of the Connecticut River (United States) at this location originates from the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. The V&MRR was chartered in 1844 and completed an extension between Millers Falls, Massachusetts and Brattleboro, Vermont by 1850.
A pedestrian bridge was attached on its northern side. The steel superstructure for the 907 metre-long rail bridge was built by two local construction companies, Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte (part of the Krupp group) of Rheinhausen and Harkort of Duisburg. The eastern end of the bridge was made impassable by a bomb on 22 May 1944 during World War II ...
These twin tower structures, one each side of the track, were to protect the entrance to the city of Nijmegen and delay any enemy advance to give time to demolish the bridge. [2] The railway bridge's construction enabled train connections to Arnhem, thus Nijmegen was the last major city in the Netherlands to be connected to the national rail ...