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Chicago & Alton Bascule Railroad Bridge, Chicago, Illinois

According to Historic Bridges.org: The Chicago & Alton Bascule Railroad Bridge was built in 1906 by the American Bridge Company of New York. This bascule railroad bridge is 214 feet long and spans…[View More]

The Abandoned Railroad Tracks of Perfect North Ski Slopes, Guilford, Indiana

Many people who have visited Perfect North Slopes ski resort in Dearborn County, Indiana are familiar with the long drive back to the parking lot but few know the history of that roadway and the bridg…[View More]

Driftwood Avenue Railroad Overpass, Packwood, Iowa

This Pony/through plate girder bridge over Driftwood Avenue was built in 1909. It seems like a fairly busy line with 2 trains coming through in the short 20 minutes we were there. Companies that have…[View More]

Abandoned Wills Creek Bridge, Birds Run, Ohio

Built in 1894 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, the Wills Creek bridge is about 162 feet long and spans Wills Creek just southeast of Birds Run, Ohio. I’m not too sure when the bri…[View More]

Rockwood, Michigan Railroad Bridge

If you’re looking for exciting information and stories about a bridge, you probably want to keep on scrolling because there’s nothing interesting about this bridge. I have no idea when the bridge …[View More]

Blue Island Junction Railroad Bridges, Blue Island, Illinois

On the southside of Chicago is the small city of Blue Island which is home to one of the most photographed railroad sites in the nation…the Blue Island Junction Railroad Bridges. At this locati…[View More]

Railroad Tunnel #22, Eaton, West Virginia

Tunnel 22, built in 1857, also known as Rodemer’s Tunnel is 338 feet long and one of the 3 tunnels that were bypassed in 1963. Since the bypass in 1963, the tunnel has suffered a collapsed wall whi…[View More]

Harrods Old Trace Bridge, Jeffersontown, Kentucky

Back along a hard packed deadend gravel road literally 50 feet from I-265 on the east side of Louisville, Kentucky I found this timber stringer bridge over the Norfolk Southern Railroad. The road, Har…[View More]

Big 4 Stone Arch Railroad Bridge, Crawfordsville, Indiana

This beautiful stone arch railroad bridge was built in 1901 but the line dates back to just after the Civil War in 1866 when the Danville, Urbana, Bloomington and Pekin Railroad Company in Illinois bu…[View More]

The Collapsed Railroad Tunnel # 21, Eaton, West Virginia

In the mid 1850s the Northwestern Virginia Railroad built a 103 mile long rail line from Grafton, West Virginia to the Ohio River in Parkersburg, West Virginia. When the line was completed in May of 1…[View More]

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