1872+1887+1916 UP Bridges over Missouri River at Omaha, NE

1872: (no Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter)

1887: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter)

1916: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

1872:

BridgeHunter_1872

1887:

BridgeHunter_1887

1916:

Street View, Jun 2021

The UP Big Boy crossing the bridge in 2026 taught me that I had yet to write notes for this significant bridge.

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The two short trusses at the end indicate that this photo was taken from the Iowa side. This catches 3 of the 4 long spans.

2015 photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter_1916

I wonder how often they have to remove debris from the top of the trail protector.

2015 photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter_1916

John uploaded a lot of detailed shots on BridgeHunter_1916. I note these photos because they clearly show that the design is a transition between pin-connected and riveted gusset plates.

2015 photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter_1916

2015 photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter_1916

2015 photo by John Marvig via BridgeHunter_1916

1956/68 Omaha North and South Quads @ 24,000

After crossing the bridge, the Big Boy train soon turned North to take the former-C&NW route to Chicago.

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1898+2006 Quaker Bridges over Little Shenango River near Greenville, PA

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

Street View, Aug 2024

"Bridge was saved from demolition almost single-handedly by Nathan Clark, Jr. Note the finials on the top at the four corners." [BridgeHunter]

HistoricBridges
This span is 124.0' (27.8m) long.

"A unique square-shaped design of decorative finials are mounted on the ends of the top chords. The portal bracing is a lattice design. V-lacing is present on the vertical members. The lacing and lattice, as well as the finials make this a very visually attractive bridge. The stone abutments, although seen frequently in Pennsylvania, are uncommon in other states like Michigan and offer an attractive seat for the bridge over other materials such as concrete. The overhead lateral bracing is tied directly into the pin on the connections via a plate with a hole in it. This is less common than the usual method of mounting the overhead lateral bracing above the top chord or in the sway bracing. The floor beams are the less common riveted girders that a fishbelly shape to them, although the floor beams do not come to a point like many fishbelly floor beams.

"The bridge was apparently locally known as the 'Friendly Bridge' because people would wave at people crossing the one-lane bridge while waiting to cross themselves."

2010 photo by Brian McKee via BridgeHunter

2010 photo by Jason Smith via BridgeHunter

This view shows the fishbelly girders that HistoricBridges described. Linda says that it was rated as 97.5 out of 100. As she observes, that is better than many bridges that we still drive over. Although that strikes me as a lot of rust for a high rating.

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Hocking Canal Lock #12 (Sheep Pen Lock)

Google Maps Label: (Satellite)

Historical Marker Location: (Satellite)
 

I couldn't see a lock at either satellite location above because of the trees.

Note that the walls in the middle are further apart than the walls that hold the gates.

7:13 video @ 0:45
The WEIRDEST Canal Lock Ever? Hocking's Sheep Pen Lock

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"Side A: The twelfth lock on the Hocking Canal, the Sheep Pen lock underscores Southeast Ohioans’ efforts to open their region to the world during the mid-nineteenth century. Built as a guard lock, it was intended to permit slackwater navigation of the Hocking River by regulating water depths where river and canal met. Those plans were later abandoned and the mechanism was converted to a lift lock, which raised and lowered boats as required by changes in the canal’s elevation. (Continued on other side)

"Side B: (Continued from other side) Stretching from Carroll to Athens, the Hocking Canal opened in 1843. The canal stimulated the growth of Lancaster, Logan, and Nelsonville, and opened the Hocking Valley to trade. Its major exports were salt, coal, and iron. Imports included goods from the East, such as cloth, shoes, and dishes. The advent of railroads in the 1850s meant the beginning of the end for canals. In 1894, the Hocking Canal was abandoned."

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.

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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.

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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.../

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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.

1958

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