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The Kentucky & Indiana Bridge is one of the first multi modal bridges to cross the Ohio River. It is for both railway and common roadway purposes together. [1] Federal, state, and local law state that railway, streetcar, wagon-way, and pedestrian modes of travel were intended by the cities of New Albany and Louisville, the states of Kentucky and Indiana, the United States Congress, and the ...
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]
Built by the Louisville Bridge Company and completed in 1870, [1] [2] the bridge was operated for many years by the Pennsylvania Railroad, giving the company its only access to Kentucky. Ownership of the railroad and the bridge passed on to Penn Central and later Conrail, which then sold the line from Louisville to Indianapolis, Indiana to the ...
According to Richard Simmons and Francis Haywood Parker, authors of Railroads of Indiana, it is "easily the state's most spectacular railroad bridge". [2] The bridge was built in 1905 and 1906 by the Indianapolis Southern Railway and successor Indianapolis Southern Railroad, which became part of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1911.
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.
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 ...
The Big Four Bridge is a six-span truss bridge that crosses the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana.It was completed in 1895, updated in 1929, taken out of rail service in 1968, and converted to bicycle and pedestrian use in 2013.
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