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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.
The DL&W built the viaduct as part of its 39.6-mile (63.7 km) Nicholson Cutoff, which replaced a winding and hilly section of the route between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Binghamton, New York, saving 3.6 miles (5.8 km), 21 minutes of passenger train time, and one hour of freight train time. The bridge was designed by the DL&W's Abraham Burton ...
By the mid-1950s, traffic on the bridge was limited to one train at a time. [5] In 1986, some of the bridge towers were damaged in a wind storm. [5] Union Pacific Railroad is the current owner of the bridge, and starting in 2001, they undertook an inspection and repair program; this resulted in both tracks being opened again, but with a 25-mile-per-hour (40 km/h) slow order.
A second Huey P. Long Bridge, which is very similar to the design of this bridge in New Orleans before its renovation, was built further upstream in 1940 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. While both of the Long bridges still carry both types of traffic, most of the others have been converted either to entirely rail use (Harahan since 1949, MacArthur ...
By the end of the year, the designs for the Bronx Kill and Little Hell Gate spans were still being revised, [82] and land condemnation for the bridge was nearly finished. [83] Lindenthal estimated in late 1911 that the bridge would cost $18 million [iv] and be completed in 1914. [84] [85] The Municipal Art Commission ultimately approved the ...
Cables slung from arches support the deck of the 3,700-foot-long Cedar Viaduct for California’s high-speed rail project spans Highway 99 at the south end of Fresno.
Upper Falls with train passing Portage Viaduct. Popular local rumor contends that the Portage Bridge was used for a famous scene in the 1986 movie Stand By Me. [citation needed] In reality, the bridge used in the movie is the Lake Britton Bridge in McArthur–Burney Falls Memorial State Park near Redding, California. [7]
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. [citation needed] The original cost of the viaduct was $246,504 which is an estimated $20 million in 2020 dollars. This massive structure was built using mostly Italian immigrant laborers.