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Railroad bridges no longer used by rail traffic in the United States. These structures may by abandoned or used by another type of traffic. If bridge was later destroyed, also put it into Category:Demolished bridges in the United States. See also Category:Former road bridges in the United States
This train operated between Memphis, Tennessee and Tallulah, Louisiana via the Yancopin bridge. Although this unlikely route was financially very successful during World War II, traffic gradually declined in the 1950s and passenger service was cut back on October 27, 1954 to include only a McGehee -Watson-Yancopin- Helena schedule.
A number of bridges along the abandoned route also remain to this day as well, the most notable of which is the causeway over Gasparilla Sound that connected the line to the island. The southernmost trestle is now a fishing pier as is the northernmost trestle up to the abandoned drawbridge tower. [ 15 ]
From 1908 to 1934, the bridge was electrified with a 600-Volt DC overhead trolley system to accommodate electric regional rail services between Providence, Bristol, Rhode Island, and Fall River, Massachusetts. [4] Catenary masts are still extant on the abandoned bridge deck, which is one of the only remnants of the line's former electrification.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, Delaware River Bridge is an abandoned railway bridge originally built by the Lehigh Valley Railroad over the Delaware River between Easton, Pennsylvania and Phillipsburg, New Jersey. It was constructed by the American Bridge Company in 1901 and 1902 on piers built in 1866. [1]
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Scroll through our archive images that show the process of the Hannibal Bridge being built in Kansas City in the late 1860s. It’s rare to have so many photographs in The Star’s archive from ...
An abandoned branch of the Otley and Ilkley Joint Railway, England Example of conversion of part of an abandoned railway line to a regenerated habitat. An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have ...