Sciotoville Bridge
Coordinates: 38 ° 45 '10 " N , 82 ° 53' 8" W.
Sciotoville Bridge | ||
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use | Railway bridge | |
Crossing of | Ohio River | |
place | Sciotoville, Portsmouth , Ohio | |
construction | Steel - truss bridge | |
Number of openings | two | |
Longest span | 2 × 236 m | |
completion | 1917 | |
planner | Gustav Lindenthal | |
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The Sciotoville Bridge is a double-track railroad bridge that crosses the Ohio River to Kentucky on the route leading south from Columbus, Ohio via Waverley at Sciotoville, Portsmouth , Ohio . It is used by CSX Transportation , which also owns it.
It was built between 1914 and 1917 by the McClintic-Marshall Company for the Chesapeake and Ohio Northern Railway , a subsidiary of the then Chesapeake and Ohio Railway . It was planned by Gustav Lindenthal , who was supported by his assistant David B. Steinman and his principal assistant engineer Othmar Ammann in the calculations of the structure . The bridge was designed to carry two coal trains with 380 ton locomotives.
The bridge consists of two solid , 472 m (1550 ft) long steel - trusses , which are associated with severe transverse struts and supported on a pillar in the middle of the stream as well as on the pillars on the shore. When it opened, it was the longest, continuous half-timbered construction in the world. As a result of the central pillar, the bridge has two openings with pillar spacings of 236 m (775 ft) each. Their total length including the ramp bridges is 1140 m (3739 ft). At its highest point in the middle of the river, the bridge's framework has a height of almost 40 m. It has a clear height of 12.2 m above high water and 32.5 m above low water.
Web links
- Ohio River - Sciotoville, Ohio, USA on bridgmeister.com
- William D. Middleton: Sciotoville Railroad Bridge ( March 11, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive ) from The Portsmouth Daily Times January 11, 2004
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Sciotoville Ohio River Bridge on Bridges & Tunnels.com
- Sciotoville Bridge - McClintic-Marshall Company