B&O: (
Archived Bridge Hunter;
Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)
CVSR = Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad
W&LE = Modern Wheeling and Lake Erie
AC&Y = Akron, Canton & Youngstown
B&O Bridge
Lock #14 is in the foreground and
Lock #13 is under the steel girder B&O bridge.
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| Photo by nyttend via BridgeHunter_B&O |
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uakron
"About 300 feet long, this one spans the canal and the towpath at Lock 13, and is about 40 feet above the top of the lock. It is the second trestle built on the site. The first was the crude-looking wooden structure seen in 19th-century photographs of the valley. According to Ohio railroad icon, author, and history professor Dr. Roger Grant, the wooden trestle was constructed by the Valley Line Railroad in 1879-80. This line went bankrupt in 1895, but was reorganized as the Cleveland Terminal & Valley Company, the same year. The Baltimore & Ohio took control of the line in 1909. It is this trestle that is crossed by today’s Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, from which riders can get an aerial view of the Cascade Locks." |
Akron, Canton & Youngstown Bridge
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| 2015 photo via BridgeHunter_AC&Y |
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uakron
"A second, much higher trestle soars 70 feet above Lock 11. Erected in 1926 by the American Bridge Company, the lofty steel structure soars 70 feet above Lock 11 and is nearly 900 feet long. It is a thrill to watch a massive, thousand-ton freight train serenely gliding eight stories in the air over the fragile-looking steel structure—a marvel of then-relatively-new structural engineering design; i.e., the ability to daringly calculate the strength of materials (as first demonstrated by such 19th century pioneers as James B. Eads and John Roebling, who left St. Louis’s Eads Bridge, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, and Cincinnati’s Great Suspension Bridge in their wake). Beneath this light steel webbing , still standing like ancient monuments, are the massive stone piers that supported the first trestle on this sight, erected in 1890-91 by the Pittsburgh, Akron & Western Railroad." |
Bonus
Predecessor bridges
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| Postcard via BridgeHunter_AC&Y |
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