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The Bellaire Bridge or Interstate Bridge is a privately owned, closed cantilever truss toll bridge that spans the Ohio River between Benwood, West Virginia (near Wheeling) and Bellaire, Ohio (near Martins Ferry). [1] It provided a link for commuters between southern Ohio border towns and West Virginia steel mills from 1926 to 1991. [2]
The Bellaire Bridge (now abandoned and closed) was filmed in the 1991 motion picture The Silence of the Lambs. The curved railroad viaduct and bridge over the Ohio, the B & O Railroad Viaduct, were featured in the 2010 film Unstoppable and is a registered historic structure.
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.
The bridge, which carries 24,000 vehicles a day between Louisville and Jeffersonville, Ind., was to reopen Saturday evening. Semi dangling from bridge over Ohio River leads to dramatic rescue in ...
CSX Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line Bellaire and Benwood: 1870 Bellaire Bridge (Closed, Demolition planned) Bellaire and Benwood 1926 (closed 1991) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge: I-470: Brookside and Wheeling: 1985 Wheeling Suspension Bridge (crosses main channel only) WV 251
A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices. LCCN 78104064. Semmens, Peter (1994). Railway Disasters of the World: Principal Passenger Train Accidents of the 20th Century. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-323-2. Trevena, Arthur (1981). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 2. Redruth: Atlantic Books. ISBN 0-906899-03-6.
Oct. 11, 1911: "Prospect St. Bridge falls with a crash" Nov. 4, 1911: "Three hurt when bridge collapses" Akron Evening Times, Oct. 28, 1918: "Bridge collapses; two escape death" Oct. 28, 1922 ...
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