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Henderson Bridge (Ohio River) CSX Transportation: Union Township and Henderson: 1932 Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges: US 41: Evansville and Henderson (crosses the river entirely within the state of Kentucky at this point) 1932, 1965
Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Ohio River: Bellaire, Ohio, and Benwood, West Virginia: Belmont County, Ohio, and Marshall County, West Virginia: WV-25: Bridgeport Bridge: Replaced Pratt truss: 1893 1988 Former US 40: Ohio River back channel
The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (formerly the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge) is a suspension bridge that spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. When opened on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet (322 m) main span, [ 3 ] which was later overtaken by John A ...
The Wheeling Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the main channel of the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world from 1849 until 1851. Charles Ellet Jr. (who also worked on the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge ) designed it and supervised construction of what became the first bridge ...
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.
When the bridge opened in November 1963, it carried only three lanes of traffic each way across the Ohio River. In 1985, the emergency shoulders were eliminated, and the bridge was re-striped with four lanes in each direction, increasing the traffic capacity by 33%, earning the bridge the determination of being 'functionally obsolete' due to ...
The Bridgeport Bridge (known officially as the Wheeling and Belmont bridge as per the dedication plaque affixed to the original structure) was a steel-framed bridge but was built with a wooden deck in 1893 to replace a prior wooden covered bridge that was built on the same site circa 1836. In fact, the 1893 bridge was partially built off of the ...
The Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge is a continuous steel arch-shaped truss bridge over the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky. Built between 1968 and 1977, the four-lane arched truss span provides a western Ohio River crossing for the Interstate 275 beltway around the Cincinnati area. The section of Interstate 275 on the Cropper bridge is the ...