General Information
| Completion: | 1916 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Through truss bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
| Structure: |
Continuous truss bridge |
| Support conditions: |
for registered users |
Location
| Location: |
Limeville, Greenup County, Kentucky, USA Sciotoville, Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, USA |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 38° 45' 10" N 82° 53' 9" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 775 m | |
| main bridge | ||
|---|---|---|
| total length | 472.44 m | |
| span lengths | 2 x 236.22 m | |
| number of spans | 2 | |
Materials
| truss |
steel
|
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Sciotoville Bridge is a steel continuous truss bridge carrying railway tracks belonging to CSX Transportation across the Ohio River between Siloam - a junction located north of Limeville, Kentucky and east of South Shore, Kentucky - and Sciotoville, Ohio in the United States. Designed by Gustav Lindenthal, the bridge was constructed in 1916 by Chesapeake and Ohio Railway subsidiary Chesapeake and Ohio Northern Railway as part of a new route between Ashland, Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio.
The bridge is continuous across two 775-foot-long (236 m) spans, and is considered an engineering marvel. It held the record for longest continuous truss span in the world from ist opening until 1945.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Sciotoville Bridge" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1990): Les grands ponts du monde: Hors d'Europe. Brissaud, Poitiers (France), pp. 131.
- (1984): Great American Bridges and Dams. A National Trust Guide. John Wiley & Sons, New York (USA), pp. 173.
- (1999): Landmarks on the Iron Road. Two Centuries of North American Railroad Engineering. Indiana University Press, Bloomington (USA), pp. 194.
- (1999): Tierra sobre el agua. Visión histórica universal de los puentes. Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Madrid (Spain), pp. 431.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20001369 - Published on:
24/03/2001 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
