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The Thomas Viaduct spans the Patapsco River and Patapsco Valley between Relay, Maryland and Elkridge, Maryland, USA. It was commissioned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O); built between July 4, 1833, and July 4, 1835; and named for Philip E. Thomas, the company's first president. [3] Some claim it to be the world's oldest multiple arched ...
New Albany and Louisville. 1912. 38°16′57″N 85°48′05″W / 38.28250°N 85.80139°W / 38.28250; -85.80139. McAlpine Locks and Dam (Only to Shippingport Island, not all the way across river) New Albany and Louisville. (Falls of the Ohio) 1830. 38°16′41″N 85°47′25″W / 38.278087°N 85.790408°W / 38.278087 ...
Clay. Length. 0.333 miles (0.535 km) Turns. 4. Race lap record. 0:11.243 (Aaron Reutzel, Baughman-Reutzel Motorsports, 2018, 410 ASCOC Sprints) Grandview Speedway is a one third-mile automobile race track located just east of Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania, United States. [2] Featuring moderately high banks and a wide racing surface, it is ...
Norfolk Southern's predecessor railroads date to the early 19th century. The South Carolina Canal & Rail Road was the SOU's earliest predecessor line. Chartered in 1827, the South Carolina Canal & Rail Road Company became the first to offer regularly scheduled passenger train service with the inaugural run of the Best Friend of Charleston in 1830. [18]
The Conrail system in Cleveland featured a number of routes and secondary lines. The former New York Central Chicago Line was the primary east–west route through Cleveland, with the addition of the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Cleveland line, allowing traffic to and from the Pittsburgh region to pass through to points near Buffalo or Chicago and Detroit.
Line length. 4,237 ft (1,291 m) Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) Grade. 70 + ft⁄mi (1.326%) [5] The Blue Ridge Tunnel (also known as the Crozet Tunnel) is a historic railroad tunnel built during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s. The tunnel was the westernmost and longest of four tunnels engineered by Claudius ...
September 16, 1995 [2] Location. Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct (also known as the Nicholson Bridge and the Tunkhannock Viaduct) is a concrete deck arch bridge on the Nicholson Cutoff rail line segment of the Norfolk Southern Railway Sunbury Line that spans Tunkhannock Creek in Nicholson, Pennsylvania. Measuring 2,375 feet (724 m) long and towering ...
Another food hall is coming to central Ohio, this time to an area just outside downtown, near Grandview Heights. Plans were announced April 22 for the Little Grand Market, a 22,500-square-foot ...