1907 2200' (671m) Tourist/Southern Railroad Burton Tunnel, second longest in Indiana

East Portal: (Satellite)

West Portal: (Satellite)

Tourist trains that run from the French Lick Depot go through this tunnel.

"Built in 1907 the 2,200 foot Burton Tunnel is the second longest tunnel in Indiana, the longest being the Duncan Tunnel which is an additional 2,489 feet long for a total length of 4,689 feet. The tunnel hosted the Southern Railway which ran the branch line from French Lick to Huntingburg Indiana. The tunnel was dug out from both ends and joined in the middle, while you ride our train if you look for it you can see how the angle didn’t quite meet up evenly, and there is a corner on either side of the tunnel walls toward the middle." [FrenchLickTrain]

2 of 6 photos posted by Roger Baker with the comment: "33 years ago today we took off on another Southern Indiana adventure down to French Lick for a train ride thru the 2nd longest tunnel in Indiana. 🚂😎"

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The Burton Tunnel is the second longest in Indiana at 2,200 feet long.

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33 years ago it only cost $13 for the 2 of us to make the round trip.

Southern Railroad donated the track between Dubois and West Baden to the Indiana Railway Museum. The French Lick Scenic Railway operates a tourist line out of the former Monon+Southern Depot, and the Dubois County Railroad (DCRR) operates freight trains. This tunnel is a highlight of the tourist trains.

Between the two railroads, they own the former-Southern branch from Huntingburg to French Lick. DCRR interchanges with NS in Huntingburg. DCRR also runs the Spirit of Jasper tourist train from Jasper to Huntingburg.

The portal photo above is of the south portal because the track is curved.

1951/51 Hillham Quad @ 24,000

This would be the north portal because the track is straight.

Alcophile Flickr
Burton Tunnel

With a cloud of blue haze from a pair of Macintosh & Seymour designed, Alco-built 539T prime movers, a photo freight emerges from 2200' of darkness that is Burton Tunnel.

The French Lick Scenic Railway, and its freight operation, the Dubois County Railroad, provided two of their three Alco's for their first ever photo charter. It was a great day with several friends riding and photographing the former Southern Railway branch between French Lick and Dubois, Indiana.

For those locomotive fans, the leader is an S-2 that once operated on the Michigan Southern railway and was presumably built for the Philadelphia, Bethlehem & New England. The trailing RS1 is former Indiana coal hauler Algers, Winslow & Western #4, that was originally Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic #4. It's a stablemate to the RS1 in Duluth. Both are painted in AW&W colors.

This is the only photo I found that explicitly labeled which portal we were looking at. This is when I noticed the tracks coming out of the south portal are curved.

TripAdvisor
Photo: South portal to Burton Tunnel, constructed in 1907.

Three Pedestrian Suspension Bridges over Vermillion River in Pontiac, IL

West: (Satellite) Humiston Riverside Swinging Bridge

Middle: (Satellite)

East: (Satellite) Swinging Bridge

West Bridge

The river was running high.

Mark W, May 2025

Jordan Baer, May 2026

Because of the building in the background of Jordan's photo above, I think this view is also of the West Bridge.

Facebook Reel

Middle Bridge

Street View, Oct 2022

East Bridge

Ramin Homyak, Oct 2022

Sarah Jacob, Oct 2023

1914-96 OH-715 Pomerene Bridge Bridge and 1935 Mohawk Dam on Walhonding River near Warsaw,OH

Bridge: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Dam: (Satellite)

Street View, May 2023

Dobbins Aerial Photography posted

Doug Chapman: I have seen photos where the water submerges the bridge.

Dobbins Aerial Photography: Doug Chapman I've seen some close to the top.

Doug Chapman shared

OH-715 is in the flood plain of the Mohawk Dam. Obviously, the dam is a flood control dam and the reservoir is normally empty. When I accessed this map on May 29, 2026, the road was closed because the reservoir was retaining water. Today's US-36 south of here must have been built when the dam was built.

Satellite

Dobbins posted these photos on May 26, 2026. Note that the new bridge is also under water. Note the log on top of the truss. Some comments on the post indicated that happened during 2019. 

Dobbins Aerial Photography posted

Matthew Lee Tomes: In January 2005 it got 82 feet deep.

This is a nice view of the inlet control tower and spillway.

Garrett R., Jan 2023

I guess the embankment on the right is the emergency spillway. It is the original undisturbed earth. That is, it is not dirt piled up in layers like the dam itself is.

Street View, May 2023

I flipped through the images in Google Earth, and only this one and a couple in 2006 showed the river out of its banks.

Google Earth, Sep 2004

The bridge is a pin-connected truss.

Street View, May 2023

Dobbins Aerial Photograph posted

Vehicles underwater on SR-715 in the flooding, Warsaw, Ohio (05/28/26)

Both thought they could make it earlier this week with lower water levels. Neither did. Turn Around, Don't Drown.

The red dot is a Cadillac. The yellow dot is Ford truck. Neither can be seen at this time. 

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[Sometimes, the police barricades that close a road are valid.]

Dobbins did some more photos that focused on the stranded log.

Dobbins Aerial Photograph posted three photos with the comment:

Log atop the old iron bridge from 2019 flooding, Warsaw, Ohio (05/28/26)

If the water reaches this log again, we'll have some serious flooding all-around the area.

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1853-1956 B&O Martin Tunnel at Littleton, WV and the B&O Old Main

(Satellite, Green St. on the east side is on the former B&O right-of-way.)

Abandoned by Sherman Cahal posted three photos with the comment:

The Martin Tunnel is mostly sealed, though a small opening has been knocked through the cinder-blocked portal, allowing a limited view inside.

The tunnel was part of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad’s Fairmont Subdivision in West Virginia, a line completed around 1851. For more than a century, the route served the region’s timber, oil, gas, and coal interests, but those industries gradually declined through the 20th century. Timbering had largely faded by the end of the 19th century, while oil and natural gas production began to diminish by the 1940s. Through traffic ended in 1956, and the Fairmont Subdivision was abandoned in 1972.

🔗 https://abandonedonline.net/.../baltimore-ohio-railroad.../

[Martin Tunnel]

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[Instagram makes me appreciate that Facebook Reels are better.]

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1960/62 Littleton Quad @ 24,000

B&O Old Main

The Martin tunnel was on the B&O Fairmont Subdivision, which went from Cumberland to Wheeling through today's West Virginia. The tunnel is between Cameron and Mannington on this map.

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The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O), incorporated in Maryland in 1827 and Virginia in 1826, was the first railroad in the United States chartered for commercial transportation of freight and passengers. Its goal was to connect Baltimore, Maryland, with the Ohio River at Wheeling, Virginia. An early alignment was proposed from Baltimore through Pennsylvania to Wheeling, but political opposition forced the railroad to route the line through western Virginia instead.

Construction of the B&O main line began in Baltimore on July 4, 1828. By January 1830, trains were operating between Mount Clare and Pratt Street in Baltimore. The railroad soon extended westward: an additional 13 miles were completed to Ellicott’s Mills later in 1830, a branch reached Frederick in 1831, the main line arrived at Harpers Ferry in December 1834, and it reached Cumberland, Maryland, on November 5, 1842. Expansion then paused while the B&O upgraded portions of its hastily constructed track. Early sections used iron strap rails fastened to wooden beams; when these straps loosened or broke, they could penetrate the floors of wooden railcars, seriously injuring passengers. The later adoption of solid iron “T” rail eliminated this hazard.

Construction west of Cumberland resumed in late 1848 as the B&O pushed toward the Ohio River. The line crossed the Allegheny Mountains through Grafton and Fairmont, Virginia, before turning northwest toward Wheeling. The final spike was driven at Roseby’s Rock, seven miles east of Moundsville, on December 24, 1852. Completion of the route required 113 bridges and 11 tunnels, including the 4,100-foot Tunnelton Tunnel, which at the time was the longest railroad tunnel in the world. Major structures also included large iron bridges at the Cheat River and Tray Run.

The first train reached Wheeling on January 1, 1853. A formal celebration followed on January 12, when approximately 400 passengers—including the governors of Maryland and Virginia, members of both legislatures, and other officials—traveled the completed line.

[AbandonedOnline]

Today, CSX uses the originally desired route through Pennsylvania.

CSX

1911+1959+2016 US-89 Bridges over Little Colorado River at Cameron, AZ

1911: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; HAER; Satellite)

1959: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no longer exists.)

2016: (Satellite)

It looks like the new bridge includes bike lanes.

Street View, Oct 2024

"Built 1911; bypassed 1959" [BridgeHunter_1911]

Postcard via BridgeHunter_1959

2009 photo by James McCray via BridgeHunter_1959

aaroads

ADOT

2015 photo by Steve Conro via BridgeHunter_1959

It looks like the current bridge uses concrete girders.

MrCa2, Mar 2017

Yep, I think they are concrete girders.

ADOT

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1. THREE-QUARTER VIEW, FACING NORTH. - Cameron Suspension Bridge, Spanning Little Colorado River on Alternate U.S. Route 89, Cameron, Coconino County, AZ

This photo clearly shows that it is still carrying a pipeline.

HistoricBridges
The span is 660' (201m).

Postcard via lehigh
Little Colorado (River) and Suspension Bridge Cameron, Arizona C-469

Andrew T. Vickerman posted two photos with the comment: "Anybody got any info about this bridge in Cameron AZ? Any details of why it’s closed off?"

Patrick O'Donnell: Basically became outdated and bypassed by the nearby bridge. Bought by a gas company to run the pipeline across...

Nick Jones: Lol ... love this factoid ... The bridge was damaged by an overload of sheep in 1937, when it almost collapsed.[2] The damage was repaired and the bridge served highway traffic until 1959.

Brian Kosich: Interestingly, there was also a truck bypass bridge east of the current bridge https://www.aaroads.com/guides/az-089-truck

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1938 US-62 Bridge over Green River at Rockport, KY

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

"Design: Three-span cantilevered Warren through truss" [BridgeHunter]

In addition to a long through truss, the approaches have long deck trusses.

2009 photo by C Hanchey via BridgeHunter

One reason for long approaches is a wide flood plain. But another reason is the high clearance of the bridge.

Street View, Apr 20216

We can see the road bridge in the background of this photo of the PAL/IC Bridge. It also shows the high clearance of the road bridge. Note that the railroad bridge has a rather large clearance, but it still has a movable span.

McLean County Kentucky Lost Railroad History posted via Dennis DeBruler

Thanks to Tim Williams for sharing the picture of the Rockport Railway Bridge.

This documents the incredibly high clearance of the bridge. Steamboats were obsolete by the 1930s. I think 60' is the accepted clearance for barge traffic. So I don't know why this bridge is so high and has such steep approach grades.

2012 photo by Larry Dooley via BridgeHunter

Peabody did transport some big draglines on the Green River. But it started mining in this area in the 1950s, well after the bridges were built.

RockportKY, photo probably by Gary Durham. via Dennis DeBruler
A refurbished BE-1450 is heading downriver.

Photo furnished by Ray McClain via RockportKY
"The 1260 Dragline passing under the Rockport Bridge."

Kudos to KY DOT for maintaining the truss.

Street View, Apr 2026

The maintenance was needed.

Street View, Jul 2014