Sciotoville Bridge

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Coordinates: 38 ° 45 '10 "  N , 82 ° 53' 8"  W.

Sciotoville Bridge
Sciotoville Bridge
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
location
Sciotoville Bridge, Kentucky
Sciotoville Bridge

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.

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