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Holly Springs, Brownsville and Ohio Railroad - 1878 began a narrow-gauge line between Holly Springs, Mississippi, and Friendship via Brownsville. Grading was done between the last two places, and 12 miles (19 km) of track laid from the latter. [214] The intention was to build through Union City to opposite Cairo, Illinois, on the Ohio River. [215]
The Olmsted Locks and Dam is a locks and wicket dam on the Ohio River at river mile 964.4. The project is intended to reduce tow and barge delays by replacing the existing older, and frequently congested, locks and dams Number 52 and Number 53. The locks are located about 17 miles upstream from the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ...
Ohio River Bridges Project
Opened. November 25, 1963; 60 years ago (November 25, 1963) Location. The Brent Spence Bridge is a double decker, cantilevered truss bridge that carries Interstates 71 and 75 across the Ohio River between Covington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio. The top deck carries Kentucky-bound traffic while the bottom deck carries Ohio-bound traffic.
List of locks and dams of the Ohio River
Abraham Lincoln Bridge. The Abraham Lincoln Bridge is a six-lane, single-deck cable-stayed bridge carrying northbound Interstate 65 across the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. [2] The main span is 700 feet (213 m) (two spans) and the bridge has a total length of 2,100 feet (640 m).
This two lane vehicular bridge is the Ohio River crossing for U.S. Route 421. The bridge has a main span of 600 feet (180 m) and total length of 3,184.2 feet (970.5 m). The original bridge had a deck width of a mere 20 feet (6.1 m), and above the deck the vertical clearance was 16.8 feet (5.1 m). The new bridge has a 40-foot (12 m)-wide road ...
November 23, 2016. Location. The Ironton–Russell Bridge can refer to either one of two bridges that carry/carried traffic along the Ohio River between Ironton, Ohio and Russell, Kentucky in the United States. The original blue cantilever Ironton–Russell Bridge, opened in 1922 and closed in 2016, carried two lanes of traffic and a narrow ...