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General Information

Completion: 1916
Status: in use

Project Type

Location

Location: , , ,
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Crosses:
  • Ohio River
Coordinates: 38° 45' 10" N    82° 53' 9" W
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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

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 22 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20001369
  • Published on:
    24/03/2001
  • Last updated on:
    05/02/2016
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