Daylighted/N&W/Pittsburgh & West Virginia Copeland Tunnel near Hopedale, OH

Tunnel: (Satellite)

Cut: (Satellite)

The tunnel is on the left and the cut that replaced it is on the right.

Street View, Oct 2018

Mark Farm posted 11 photos with the comment: "Hopedale, Ohio."

David Savick: Looks like narrow gauge rails

Steven Myers: They pulled the standard gage rails and left the guardrails. Tie plates still spiked to ties at standard gage width.

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Mark Svetlich commented on  his post
Copeland Tunnel

Mark Svetlich commented on  his post
[As part of a discussion as to how he gained access to the tunnel, Mark posted this photo of the other end.]

AJ DeJulius posted
A long US 22 between Casiz and Hopedale, Ohio, you'll see a closed off tunnel on the right side of the road(pictured here) always been curious of what the tunnel was for. Any information?

Thomas Kinney: The railroad track directly to the right used to go through it, but there were geologic instabilities, so they bypassed the tunnel and blocked it up. Fun Fact: I am actually on US 22, and just passed over the tunnel as I am writing this! [He explained in another comment that he was a passenger.]

Tommy Emery: I used to live in the area

They closed the tunnel and rerouted the line due to the tunnel having structural issues

Wm Pedly: Fun fact, President Lincoln passed through that tunnel on his bid for the presidency. He stopped in some small town nearby and talked to the residents. A buddy and I climbed the dirt pile used to close it off, and went through a hole in the top where the stacks would blow the coal smoke. inside you wouldn't believe the bats and the daddy long leg spiders. Still in incredible shape with old brick work and stone work. Very wet and somewhat dangerous and tricky to get to. Great piece of history.

Geoff Elliott: The tunnel was open when I was young. Don't think it was closed up until the 1990s.

I couldn't find the tunnel until it occurred to me that it must have been daylighted by the time this map was made. Then I read the above comments that confirmed that they dug a cut to bypass the tunnel.

I have never heard of the Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railroad. It was merged into the N&W in 1964. [Dennis DeBruler]

1960/62 Cadiz Quad @ 24,000

Nature had yet to invade the cut in 1994.

Google Earth, Mar 1994

1933,1988 Rudy Minarcin Bridge over Kiskiminetas River at Vandergrift, PA

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

Jackson-Township historical preservation posted
Bridge partially under water at the town of Vandergrift, Westmoreland County during the Great Flood of 1936.

It was this pier that was under water.

Street View, Jun 2025

Kudos to PennDOT for maintaining a truss bridge.

Street View, Jun 2025

BridgeHunter
The span is 311' (95m) long. The bridge was built in 1933 and rehabilitated in 1988.

Some comments indicate that the water was as high as the roof at Niki's. If the store was down by the stop light, I could easily believe it. But this store is up on a hill.

Street View, Jun 2025

The steel mill has a couple of contour lines between it and the river so hopefully the river level didn't reach it. It also shows that North Vandergrift is in a flood plain.

1953/55 Vandergrift Quad @ 24,000

In fact, this view shows that the mill is on a bluff. The bridge in the left background is the subject of these notes.

Andrew Stewart posted via Dennis DeBruler

Aban/DL&W Old Road Bridge over Delaware River near Delaware, NJ

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

The bridge was replaced by the DL&W Cut-Off Bridge, which is now also abandoned.

Comment on Eugene's post below

Eugene Powell posted
Erie Lackawanna RR locomotive # 1932 hauls an Eastbound Freight over the Old Road Bridge ( Over the Delaware River), New Jersey Photo Taken: June 26, 1965 Photo: Victor Hand A Time Capsule view. ( Tuesday's Flashback)

Wikipedia via BridgeHunter

1956/56 Newark Quad @ 250,000

Erie Canal Locks #55 and #56 and Aqueduct over Ganargua Creek near Lyons, NY

55: (Satellite, [AmericanCanalSociety, a popup says this location was for both the original and enlarged locks.])

Aqueduct: (Satellite, east abutment)

56: (Satellite)

Erie Canal Overview

Lock #55

Lock #55 was very close to Barge Canal Lock #27.

Since it has two chambers, this is the enlarged canal lock. Also, it is late enough in the 1800s that one of the chambers has been lengthened. It is unusual to lengthen them on the upstream side because that requires more excavation.

Hudson River Lightkeeper posted
Canal Favorites - Lock 55 in Lyons, NY

This strikes me as a better colorization.

ErieCanal

A downstream view that emphasises that the chamber was lengthened on the upstream side.

ErieCanal

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Aqueduct over Ganargua Creek

ErieCanal

The remnants of the east and west ends of the aqueduct based on some photos in ErieCanal_aqueduct.

Street View, Nov 2023

ErieCanal_aqueduct, there are more photos of the aqueduct on this webpage
Aerial view of Stephens' Marina in 1965(?), with the Lyons Aqueduct on the right.

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Lock #56

Fortunately, someone is keeping the vegetation under control at this lock. Again, I'm surprised that it was the northern chamber that was lengthened because most locks enlarged the south chamber to expedite the handling of heavy 250-ton barges loaded with grain that were eastbound.

Satellite

We are looking at the eastern end of the lock. The northern chamber in the background would be twice the length of the southern chamber. The groves in the stone in the extreme foreground are for the hinge that held the miter gate.

L Lachnicht, Jun 2021

On the left is a preserved store and on the right we see the end of the south chamber and the south wall of the north chamber.

Street View, Nov 2023

ErieCanal_56, there are several more photos of the lock on that webpage

This view of the south chamber clearly shows the notches in the walls that held the gates when they were open.

ErieCanal_56

US-20 emergency replacement of bridge over Twenty Mile Creek near North East, PA

(Satellite, didn't look in Bridge Hunter or Historic Bridges because these are UCEB (Ugly Concrete Eye Sore) bridges.)

US-20 Overview 

dot
This 1973 bridge "was closed to traffic in February 2024 following a design analysis of the structure."
It took just a little over a year to build the replacement: Sep 3, 2024, to Oct 17, 2025. But it took over a half year after the closure to start construction. Average annual usage is 2,500, and federal taxpayers helped pay for the $9,614,010 cost.

From this view, I thought it was a concrete girder bridge, but the above view clearly shows the steel girders.

Street View, Apr 2024

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The provided URL is the dot link above. Obviously, this bridge also uses steel girders. The culvert in the middle of the view is under the CSX/NYC tracks.

Portland & Western train derails on Wood Trestle over Olalla Slough in Toledo, OR

P&W/SP: (Satellite)

1936 Original US-20 Bridge: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Logging Railroads of the Pacific Northwest posted
Thought some of you would find this interesting. Near Toledo Oregon a day ago [Jan 21, 2026]. Portland & Western services the Georgia-Pacific mill there.

Leaf Jess Norick: Traves A Allen probably was inspected by the same inspector who passed the burned out trestle next to Avery Park in Corvallis.... the one that later collapsed under the weight of a train hauling chemical fertilizer, dumping craptons of it into Mary's River.

Bob Davidson: Leaf Jess Norick It was a broken rail just before the bridge, not a bridge failure.

Engines were dragged onto the bridge before it could come to a stop.

Nick Miller: From what I understand it was a failure in the ties. The underlying structure will be okay and they’ll be able to put the rail back.

Jeremy Taylor: They derailed beforehand and dragged it on the bridge. Most of what you see "collapsed" or hanging off is the walkway. The slug is dangling though.

J.B. Rail Photo posted

Wow that's crazy!!!

Jan 21-28: This screenshot was from Jan 28.

3:41 video @ 3:21
Timelapse: Crews work to free 3 locomotives stranded on Oregon trestle

Jan 30, 2026:

Oregon Coast Explored posted

A week after a Portland & Western Railroad train ran off its rails while crossing a wooden bridge over a small river in Toledo is now cleared. 

The train was headed from Toledo to Albany in the early morning hours of Jan. 21, when it derailed on the trestle over Olalla Slough.

The cause of the derailment was a broken rail. 

📷 Steve's Drone Videos

Another article based on the 3:41 video above.

OregonLive

This ends on Jan 28 because that is when Steve's 3:41 video ends. Casey estimates that it will take another week to remove the locomotives, but it took just another day.

7:30 video @ 0:07
Casey Jones - Professional Engineer

Jan 30: 

1 of 5 photos and 7 videos posted by Steve's Drone Videos with the comment: "The day after the removal of the engines from the trestle!"

52 photos and videos

Unfortunately, Steve got every day except Jan 29, the day the locomotives were removed. Fortunately, 7idea Productions caught that action. At the end he provides links to his two other videos about this incident. The first one is mostly a railfan video. The second one shows the pile driving done to create the temporary bridge.

11:47 video @ 4:05
Back on the Rail [Toledo Derailment Update]

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1936 US-20 Wood Bridge over West Olalla Slough in Toledo, OR

While looking for the P&W bridge, I noticed that US-20 used to go through this town. In fact, according to BridgeHunter_1936, the original route still has a wood bridge over the West Olalla Slough.