P&OV: (no Bridge Hunter, and I looked at every photo for the county; pghbridges; Satellite)
1890: (Bridge Hunter)
1955: (Bridge Hunter; pghbridges; Satellite)The Back Channel of the Ohio River is on the south side of Neville Island. The Lock, and thus the navigation channel, is on the north side. Thus these bridges don't have vertical clearance requirements.
The other road bridge to the island is Coraopolis, which is near the other end of the island.
P&OV was the Pittsburgh & Ohio Valley industrial railroad on Neville Island. The railroad on the mainland was the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie (P&LE). It was originally built to serve a steel mill on that island. The steel mill is gone, but other industries are now served by the successor of this railroad.
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| Roggy Beck posted 216 passing Neville island Pa |
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| Robby Beck posted GN-2 approaching CP-5 Neville Island late 80's |
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| 1 of 45 photos posted by Todd Olson |
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Both the old and new road bridges were named Fleming Park even though it connects Neville Road to the mainland.
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Note the new bridge is on the left side of this photo. Another photo in BridgeHunter-1890 shows they used "energetic felling" to remove the span over the water, but evidentially the P&LE wasn't too keen about a span being dropped onto their tracks.
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| John Flanigan IV posted Neville’s Island, PA. Probably not many shoving moves left for this cab. Keith L. Merritt: From what I've been told, this has been shut down. Went in there around 2007 on a switch tie team, about 6 guys and four pieces of equipment and replaced every tie through several switches. The Roadmaster had one switch marked like every third tie and that was after we dug all the dirt from between the rails enough that you could see the ties. We replaced around 35 ties or maybe more. He walked away and before the day was done we replaced every tie in the switch. He came back before we left and he asked why we went against his marks. We told him that when we lifted it with the TKO that several more dropped so we thought best to replace them than plug them and respike them. He asked how we got done so fast and we told him it wasn't the first switch we'd done. He wanted to know how we got the frog up out of the hole and we told him we'd tell him if he could keep a secret (a joke), but the truth is, I convinced my foreman, not long after I took over that TKO, to work both ends against the middle. That way everything was up and the ties just slid right under the frog. No more sag. We did several other switches over a couple weeks up there and was surprised the other day that the entire operation up there no longer exists. John Rompala: Keith L. Merritt We run a local from there every weekday. There to Demmler and back.Dennis DeBruler shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on his share I included the buildings in the background to verify I had the correct location. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4938025,-80.0827101,26a,35y,65.91h,75.19t/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en-US |
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