1903 Mountain Rail/Western Maryland Kelly (Cheat Mountain) and Glady Tunnel

Kelly: (Satellite, label is west portal. East Portal)

Glady: (Satellite, label is east portal. I could not find the west portal)

I had a hard time finding what Linda's reel below called the Cheat Mountain Tunnel. I've decided it is called Kelly Tunnel on Google Maps. While looking for the Cheat Mountain Tunnel, I found the Glady Tunnel.

Kelly (Cheat Mountain) Tunnel

They had to add a lot of rock anchors in this area. And here we see one of the curves.

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The tunnel is 1,800' (549m) long with an S-shaped curve. She heard that it has the sharpest mainline curves in the US.

One reason why I had a hard time finding the tunnel is that those curves are not very sharp. But I can believe that they are the sharpest mainline tunnel curves. The hairpin road on this topo map is now Old Rte 33 on Google Maps.

1969/71 Elkins Quad @ 24,000

Glady Tunnel

The W Fork Trail ends at this east portal. That trail goes south along the West Fork Glady Fork and intersects with the High Falls Trail. The High Falls Trail goes to the High Falls, which is where the New Tygart Flyer terminates. The New Tygart Flyer is the tourist train that goes through the Kelly Tunnel. The round trip, 46-mile, 4-hour train ride originates in Elkins, WV, 

Amy McLaughlin-Hitt, Sep 2024

The New Tygart Flyer Uses a Western Maryland Branch

The reason I found Glady Tunnel is that I originally followed the mainline from Elk River Junction when I should have taken the WM branch along Shavers Fork to Fall Run.

1969 Beverly East and 1968 Glady Quads @ 24,000

It is worth noting that the labels for the Fall and Red Runs are reversed on the 1909 map. And this map shows that the branch was built after 1909. Originally, I had looked on the mainline route all the way south past Burner, WV, for the Cheat Mountain Tunnel and found just frustration.

1909 Elkins and 1924 Horton Quads @ 62,400

1958,1998 WV-7 Bridge over Ohio River at New Martinsville, WV

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

Street View, Jun 2023

It is just downstream from the Hannibal Locks and Dam.

Street View, Jun 2023

BridgeHunter calls this a through truss. It is 2,100' (640m) long with a main span of 715' (218m).

Street View, Oct 2025

1830,1981 Rishel Covered Bridge over Chillisquaque Creek near Mantandon, PA

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

2019 Photo by Steve & Judy Yordy via BridgeHunter
The span is 121' (37m).

Larry Williams, Nov 2021

Laurie Purcell, Jul 2020

"At one point alleged to have been built 1812 by James Moore II, father of the founder of nearby Bucknell University, which at the time would have made it the nation's oldest covered bridge, and it was promoted as such on postcards and tourist brochures. Later research in the 1980s proved it to have been built in 1830 instead." [ArchivedBridgeHunter]

Linda says a bridge was built here in 1812, but it was reconstructed in 1830 after it was damaged by a flood in 1828. Note the 1972 flood water line near the top on the left. That was from Hurricane Agnes. Restoration work was done in 1981 using wood from an 1830 school.

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Original (1913-28) Lincoln Highway (US-30) and UP Bridges over Prairie Creek near Gardiner, NE

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

Lincoln Highway Overview

Brian Butko posted
If you're following the Lincoln Highway through Nebraska, be sure to get off US 30 between Duncan and SIlver Creek to travel a stretch of gravel LH that includes this iron truss bridge across Prairie Creek.

David Sellman commented on Brian's post
My wife and I drove over this bridge on June 7 of last year [2025].

David Sellman commented on his comment

Don Olson, Oct 2020

Wikipedia, Public Domain
"Section of Lincoln Highway in southwestern Platte County, Nebraska; looking northeastward across the Prairie Creek bridge. This is part of a 1.2-mile (2.0 km) section of the highway that is listed in the National Register of Historic Places under the name Lincoln Highway-Gardiner Station. The sloping-topped brick structure at left is a Nebraska state historical marker."

2013 photo by Roger Deschner via BridgeHunter

In 2019, UP replaced the railroad bridge that is in the background of Brian's photo at the top of these notes. We can see the top of the truss in the right side of this view.

Street View, Jul 2019

The replacement bridge. It looks like modern steel girders can be more shallow. Or did they use more piers?

Street View, Sep 2025

Steam-Driven Lift Bridge over Oswego Canal

(Satellite?, I don't even know which town this was in.)

Cori Willson posted two photos with the comment: "The West Shore Railroad crossed the Oswego Canal on this steam-operated vertical-lift bridge. The engine and its attendants occupied the small control house on top, which rode upward each time the cables rolled over the four large sheaves to raise the bridge span. This photograph was taken in the early 1880s. Within a few years, the coal sheds and stationary crane visible here (used for unloading canal boats) were replaced by modern coal pockets and a traveling steam elevator for distributing coal from the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company (see second photograph)."

EricGinny Baker: Where is this photo located? [no answer]

Lincoln Sander IV: The West Shore was completed in 1885.

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As Lincoln's comment suggests, Cori probably has the wrong railroad. The only railroads I could find near the Oswego Canal were New York Central & Hudson River, New York Ontario & Western and Delaware Lackawanna & Western. 

1900/00 Fulton and Oswego Quads @ 62,500

And the only place I could find any railroad crossing the the canal was in Oswego, NY.

Digitally Zoomed

This bridge is on the correct angle, but it is way too high to be the bridge in the photos.

Street View, May 2012

Lost/Illinois Terminal Bridge over Sangamon River at Sherman, IL

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

Mark Barnett posted six photos with the comment: "I found these photo's I took back in 1992 to 95,of the Illinois Terminal bridge over the Sangamon River just south of Sherman between Sandhill Road north of Springfield.  First one is looking north towards Sherman, then I went over on the old P&N bridge and took a couple more looking east then worked my way north back to the IT looking south. This bridge has been gone for several years now."

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Bob Bruns Flickr
IT 1602 with freight at Sherman 3/12/1955.

Mark Barnett posted 10 photos with the comment: "May of 1998 we called it a rain day and Mike Fortney and I made a road trip back to the Illinois Terminal bridge over the Sangamon River when we got word it was to be removed soon. I took these final photo's all looking south except for the final one looking north towards Sherman where we parked at the rest stop on 55. Also notice one shot of the P&N bridge to the west of the IT. The water was high that day and mother nature was trying to take over the bridge on the north end."

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The bridge was extant in Apr 1995.

Google Earth, Apr 1995

But it was gone three years later. And by the next image, 3/2005, the other bridge was also gone.

Google Earth, Apr 1998

1966 Williamsville and 1950 Springfield East Quads @ 24,000

Flat Rock Dam on Schuylkill River and Manayunk Canal Lock #68 at Philadelphia, PA

Dam: (Satellite)

Lock: (Satellite)

This view looks over the canal at the diversion dam on the right.

Street View, Jun 2016

The concrete wall is part of the lock.

Lester Wiggs, Sep 2018

Michael E Pearson added
Flat Rock Dam, a graffiti covered canal lock, and fresh pavement that'll probably be a continuation of Flat Rock Road when whatever new developments are complete

This has more graffiti than a boxcar.

Bellina, Jul 2017

A lot more.

Douglas Smithman, Jun 2020

We can see the Wasta Weir in the above photo.

Nicholas Grbec, Mar 20216

Douglas Smithman, Jun 2020

This would have operated the gates in the Historic Gate House.

Raz Reed, Aug 2017

This satellite image caught them still building the new channel and its control structure.

Satellite