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On August 21, 1871, the Valley Railroad Company was incorporated, with the intention of running trains from Cleveland to Akron, Middlebury, and Canton, rivaling the nearby Ohio and Erie Canal. [5] [6] Construction of the railroad's right-of-way began, but following the Panic of 1873, a lack of funding halted the project again. [5]
Wheeling–Pittsburgh Steel Railroad Bridge: Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway: Steubenville and Coketown: 1917 Market Street Bridge: WV 2 Spur: Steubenville and East Steubenville: 1905 Steubenville Railroad Bridge: Norfolk Southern Railway: Steubenville and Weirton: Veterans Memorial Bridge: US 22: Steubenville and Weirton 1990 Fort Steuben ...
The bridge opened after four years of construction work on September 8, 1955, costing $6.8 million, $1.8 million over budget. The bridge, along with the aging Wheeling Suspension Bridge, are the only two road links from Wheeling Island to downtown Wheeling, although this is the only one that allows vehicular traffic. In 2009, the structure ...
The line south of Moundsville was built by the Ohio River Railroad in the 1880s. [citation needed] Though the Ohio River Railroad built a line from Moundsville north to Wheeling, the parallel tracks of the original B&O main line, opened in 1852, were used there. [5] The entire line became part of the B&O and CSX through leases and mergers.
Wheeling station is a U.S. historic train station located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built in 1907–1908, and is a four-story, rectangular brick and limestone building in the Beaux-Arts-style. It measures 250 feet long by 89 feet, 6 inches, deep.
The Wheeling Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the main channel of the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world from 1849 until 1851. Charles Ellet Jr. (who also worked on the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge ) designed it and supervised construction of what became the first bridge ...
The Bridgeport Bridge (known officially as the Wheeling and Belmont bridge as per the dedication plaque affixed to the original structure) was a steel-framed bridge but was built with a wooden deck in 1893 to replace a prior wooden covered bridge that was built on the same site circa 1836. In fact, the 1893 bridge was partially built off of the ...
Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life, southwest of Studa crossing a ravine [5: Jefferson Township: 67: Plant's Covered Bridge: Plant's Covered Bridge: June 22, 1979 : Skyview Road spanning Templeton Fork Wheeling Creek [5