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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]
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
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.
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.
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 ...
The bridge is 1,659 feet in length, is 283 feet above the river, and includes a 551 foot long cantilever span. [2] The bridge formerly carried traffic on the Lexington to Lawrenceburg Division of the Southern Railway. [3] The last passenger train crossed the bridge on December 27, 1937.