Beaver Bridge (Ohio River)

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bridge_name= Beaver Bridge

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The Beaver Bridge is a rail bridge spanning the Ohio River between Monaca and Beaver, Pennsylvania. It consists of two spans: a southern cantilever through truss of 769 feet with 320-foot anchor arms; and a northern camelback through truss of 370 feet. The bridge currently carries two tracks of the CSX railroad.

The bridge was designed by Albert Lucius and built by McClintic-Marshall Company of Pittsburgh between March 1908 and May 1910 for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The bridge is notable in that the railroad proceeded with the cantilever design despite the collapse of the Quebec cantilever bridge during construction in 1907. The Beaver bridge replaced a single-track bridge built in 1890, 300 feet downstream from the current bridge's position, which itself replaced an 1878 wrought iron bridge at the same location.

ee also

*List of crossings of the Ohio River

References

*cite book | author=Cook, Richard J. | title=The Beauty of Railroad Bridges in North America -- Then and Now| publisher=Golden West Books, California (USA) | year=1987 | id=ISBN 0-87095-097-5

External links

* [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(PA3716)) Entry ] at Library of Congress Historic American Engineering Record
* [http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jmohney/new_page_189.htm Old photos of Beaver Bridge]

Crossings navbox
structure = Bridges
place = Ohio River
bridge = Beaver Bridge
bridge signs = "CSX Transportation"
upstream = Rochester-Monaca Bridge
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downstream = Vanport Bridge
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