Monday, May 19, 2025

1886 CSX/B&O Bridge over Susquehanna River at Perryville+Havre de Grace, MD


A 1906 bridge replaced this one.

Erika Quesenbery Sturgill posted
On May 5, 1886 the first passenger train on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad passed through Harford and Cecil Counties according to Rising Sun’s official historian the late William “Bill” McNamee.
Darren Reynolds shared
[The control tower merged the double-track mainline down to the single-track bridge.]

A 100' (30m) tall gantry and falsework was used to replace the 1886 bridge with the 1909 bridge.
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Unfortunately, the falsework collapsed under the weight of a coal train. Fortunately, no one was injured.
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