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By early 2013, the dinner train operation was offered for sale. [citation needed] It was sold in November 2014 and rebranded as the Newport and Narragansett Bay Railroad Company. The Old Colony and Newport ceased operations in early 2015 and eventually merged into the Newport and Narragansett Bay. [1]
The bridge gets its "number 1" name from the fact that it is the farthest downstream crossing of the Cuyahoga River proper before it empties into Lake Erie (the only other crossing is the Old River Bridge, which crosses the former course of the Cuyahoga). The bridge is of similar design to many of the other railroad bridges in the Cleveland area.
First Flats Rail Bridge, crossing the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio Fisher Covered Railroad Bridge , crossing the Lamoille River in Wolcott, Vermont Fort Sumner Railroad Bridge , crossing the Pecos River near Fort Sumner, New Mexico
The Carrollton Viaduct, located over the Gwynns Falls stream near Carroll Park in southwest Baltimore, Maryland, is the first stone masonry bridge for railroad use in the United States, built for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, founded 1827, and one of the world's oldest railroad bridges still in use for rail traffic. Construction began in ...
Railway bridges on the National Register of Historic Places (2 C) R. Road-rail bridges in the United States (46 P)
The Merchants Bridge, officially the Merchants Memorial Mississippi Rail Bridge, is a rail bridge crossing the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and Venice, Illinois. The bridge is owned by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. It opened in May 1889 and crosses the river 3 miles (5 km) north of the Eads Bridge. [3]
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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 Louisville and Indiana Railroad, the current bridge owner. The draw portion of the bridge is a vertical-lift span, built in about 1918 in place of a swing span.