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High Bridge, viewed from Jessamine County. In 1851, the Lexington & Danville Railroad, with Julius Adams as chief engineer, retained John A. Roebling (who later designed the Brooklyn Bridge) to build a railroad suspension bridge across the Kentucky River for a line connecting Lexington and Danville, Kentucky, west of the confluence of the Dix and Kentucky rivers. [1]
Subsequently, two other transcontinental lines were built in Canada: the Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) opened another line to the Pacific in 1915, and the combined Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (GTPR)/National Transcontinental Railway (NTR) system opened in 1917 following the completion of the Quebec Bridge, although its line to the Pacific ...
Although the transcontinental railroads dominated the media, with the completion of the First transcontinental railroad in 1869 dramatically symbolizing the nation's unification after the divisiveness of the Civil War, most construction actually took place in the industrial Northeast and agricultural Midwest, and was designed to minimize ...
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Barren River L & N Railroad Bridge: ca. 1900: 1980-11-26 Bowling Green: Warren: Camelback Beech Fork Bridge, Mackville Road
Railroad bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky (1 P) Pages in category "Railroad bridges in Kentucky" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The Henderson Bridge is a railroad bridge spanning the Ohio River between Henderson, Kentucky and Vanderburgh County, Indiana. The bridge is owned by the CSX Transportation. The original bridge was constructed in 1884 to 1885 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at a cost of $2,000,000. The single-tracked bridge was approximately 3,686 feet ...
Withstanding two floods – one in 1913 and the other in 1937 – the Oldtown Bridge continued to serve locals up to the mid-1970s with a weight limit of 4 tons.. The structure sits in Argillite ...
Kentucky Route 36 Bridge Replaced Reinforced concrete closed-spandrel arch: 1922 1989 KY 36: Lick Fork Creek Williamstown: Grant: KY-51: Kentucky 1804 Bridge Replaced Parker truss: 1917 1986 KY 1084: Clear Fork Creek Saxton: Whitley