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The Bellaire Bridge or Interstate Bridge is a privately owned, closed cantilever truss toll bridge that spans the Ohio River between Benwood, West Virginia (near Wheeling) and Bellaire, Ohio (near Martins Ferry). [1] It provided a link for commuters between southern Ohio border towns and West Virginia steel mills from 1926 to 1991. [2]
The B&O Railroad's first bridge across the Ohio River, built in 1857, served a rail line through Parkersburg, West Virginia. But the growing center of Chicago, Illinois, made a span between Benwood, West Virginia, and Bellaire more desirable. In 1865, the B&O obtained the Central Ohio Railroad and later the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad.
The Bellaire Bridge (now abandoned and closed) was filmed in the 1991 motion picture The Silence of the Lambs. The curved railroad viaduct and bridge over the Ohio, the B & O Railroad Viaduct, were featured in the 2010 film Unstoppable and is a registered historic structure.
CSX Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line Bellaire and Benwood: 1870 Bellaire Bridge (Closed, Demolition planned) Bellaire and Benwood 1926 (closed 1991) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge: I-470: Brookside and Wheeling: 1985 Wheeling Suspension Bridge (crosses main channel only) WV 251
A steel and stone bridge was built across the Ohio River between Bellaire, Ohio, and Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1871, connecting the B&O to the Central Ohio Railroad, which the B&O had leased starting in 1866.
Work on the I-70/71 highway through downtown Columbus won't be completed until at least 2030, several years later than originally predicted. Ohio has a total of 26,960 bridges and culverts, the ...
The bridge project floundered for years due to lack of funding but was revived in 2022 due to bipartisan advocacy efforts from elected leaders in both Ohio and Kentucky.
Kentucky and Ohio will get more than $1.63 billion in federal grants to help build a new Ohio River bridge near Cincinnati and improve the existing overloaded span there, a heavily used freight ...