1968 Eagle Creek Dam in Indianapolis, IN

(Satellite)

The dam was built in 1968 for flood control.

I included some pickup trucks for scale.

Street View, Nov 2015

Troy Shelby posted
Eagle Creek Dam

CommonwealthEngineers
"A 75-foot [23m] tall x 5,100 foot [1.5km] long earthen and concrete dam with six (6) 40′ [12m] x 31′ [9.4m] tainter [Parker] gates."

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EagleCreekPark describes some of the owners of the land now occupied by the reservoir.

1877 Whites Ridge Road Bridge over South Fork Tenmile Creek near Waynesburg, PA

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

I include the label "metalIron" because this bridge is made with wrought iron instead of steel.

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"Built 1877 by the Massillon Bridge Co. Pinned Pratt variant that features double-intersecting counters, where Whipple trusses feature double-intersecting diagonals. The Wrought Iron Bridge Company version of this truss has been referred to as a Hammond Truss, but this is the only known example built by another firm." [BridgeHunter]

HistoricBridges
"Finally, the most significant feature of this bridge is its extremely rare truss configuration. The main diagonals follow the Pratt configuration, with the counters following the Whipple configuration. The design of this rare truss is illustrated in the diagram above. It is unknown how or why this truss configuration was attempted, or if it was given an official name. However, it may have been "stolen" from a patent that competitor Wrought Iron Bridge Company filed in 1876. The patent claimed several things, among them a Pratt truss configuration with counters spanning two panels. Whether Massillon Bridge Company really was trying to violate Wrought Iron Bridge Company's patent, or if they came up with this design independently and unknowingly is not known. However given that the two companies were highly prolific and were based in cities that are located adjacent to each other, it would be a rather curious coincidence. The bridge companies did compete against each other and patent violations and conflicts did occur. Making matters more suspicious is that The Whites Ridge Road Bridge and some other early Massillon pin-connected Whipple truss bridges display built up vertical members that are also strikingly similar to another Wrought Iron Bridge Company patent for a vertical member with a double-intersecting (Whipple) diagonal. Whether or not the Whites Ridge Road Bridge is an example of a patent violation or not remains speculation, but the fact remains that this bridge's unusual truss configuration is the same as what is seen in the Wrought Iron Bridge Company patent diagram and description. The Bertram Road Bridge in Iowa is the only example on HistoricBridges.org of Wrought Iron Bridge Company employing these patents, and also the only other documented example of a truss bridge following this hybrid truss configuration. Other examples may exist, but HistoricBridges.org has yet to find them. Be sure to check out the Bertram Road Bridge since links and drawings of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company patent are available on the page."

I found the name by finding the location. I found the location by finding the old roads on this topo map.

1904/43 Waynesburg Quad @ 62,500

L&N: Louisville & Nashville Overview

Blake Donnelly posted

 

West Florida Railroad Museum posted
1959 map highlighting L&N, Atlantic Coast, & Clinchfield Railroad lines

Daniel Cassidy: What's interesting about this map is that Atlantic Coast Line controlled this entire system. ACL had a controlling interest in Louisville & Nashville (and Monon) and Clinchfield. After the ACL merged Seaboard Air Line becoming Seaboard Coast Line the whole system became a part of "Family Lines".

Matthew Cole: Black and slightly less black. That’s not confusing at all. [In fact, they look the same on my monitors.]

Wesley Meiss shared

2026 US-20 Bridge over Cazenovia Creek in West Seneca, NY

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

See "1929,1968 US-20 Bridges" for the concrete arch bridge that this bridge is replacing and the plans for this bridge.

US-20 Overview

Street View, Jul 2022

The bridge replacement cost $48.5m. [governor]

Sep 1, 2025:

Bubba Dubs posted nine photos with the comment:

The northbound route 20 bridge over Cazenovia creek has been completed and they have begun demolishing the old 1929 bridge. Traffic going northbound begun moving on Thursday at 7am and southbound traffic commenced at 3pm that same day. 

I got the drone up to document what I could of the almost 100 year old structure’s last days. Very interesting cement arches, you definitely don’t see that anymore!!!

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Bubba Dubs posted 17 photos with the comment: "I went back again last night and flew with a little more precision and got under the bridge. Those arches are beautiful."

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Apr 29, 2026:

Bubba Dubs posted nine photos with the comment: "Took a stroll over to the Route 20 bridge tonight for a little drone flight."

[The other lanes have already been replaced. So I still don't know what the old bridge looked like. Obviously, the new one is a steel-girder bridge.]

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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