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The Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge is a steel bridge which crosses the Ohio River at Brunot's Island at the west end of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It consists of two major through truss spans over the main and back channels of the river, of 508 feet (155 m) [ 1 ] and 406 feet (124 m) respectively, with deck truss approaches.
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. In 1865, the B&O obtained the Central Ohio Railroad and later the Sandusky, Mansfield & Newark Railroad.
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
Built Documented Carries Crosses Location County Coordinates KY-28: U.S. Route 27 Central Bridge: Replaced Cantilever: 1890 1989 US 27: Ohio River: Cincinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Kentucky: Hamilton County, Ohio, and Campbell County, Kentucky
However, in 2011, some folks up in Ashtabula County built the West Liberty Street Covered Bridge over a culvert and claimed that − at 18 feet, four inches − it was the shortest one in the world.
The C&O Railroad bridge is a cantilever truss bridge carrying the CSX Transportation Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision over the Ohio River. It was the first railroad bridge connecting Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky. [1] The bridge was originally built between 1886 and 1889 by a predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
Officials from both Kentucky and Ohio announced Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022, that the states will get more than $1.63 billion in federal grants to help build a new Ohio River bridge near Cincinnati ...
It was built high enough to allow steamboats to pass underneath on their way through the Falls of the Ohio along the Portland Canal; in fact, the bridge was built higher than was required, raising the cost of the bridge by $150,000.