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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]
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.
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
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 ...
The route included the High Bridge of Kentucky. Investor Emile Erlanger & Co. gained control of the newly-constructed New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad in 1881. Vintage marketing advertises the Queen & Crescent Route as "Established Nov. 18, 1883", [2] which refers to the date of first scheduled passenger service on the NO&NE. [3]
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
Robert C. Yount Memorial Bridges US 127 / US 421: Frankfort: Broadway Bridge R.J. Corman Railroad Group: Singing Bridge: Bridge Street War Mothers Memorial Bridge: US 60 / KY 420: Julian M. Carroll Bridge KY 676: Interstate 64 Bridge I-64: Frankfort and Jett Tyrone Bridge US 62: Lawrenceburg and Versailles: Young's High Bridge (closed ...
A transcontinental railroad or transcontinental railway is contiguous railroad trackage [1] that crosses a continental land mass and has terminals at different oceans or continental borders. Such networks may be via the tracks of a single railroad, or via several railroads owned or controlled by multiple railway companies along a continuous route.