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National Road Heritage Trail - Old National Road Overpass
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over Old National Road on Old National Road Heritage Trail
- Location
- Raysville, Henry County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only above, traffic below
- History
- Built 1910;
- Railroads
- - Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Rail-to-trail
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Also called
- PRR - National Road Overpass
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.79599, -85.51100 (decimal degrees)
39°47'46" N, 85°30'40" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/627480/4406174 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 82492 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 11, 2018: New photos from David Backlin
- August 9, 2018: New Street View added by Luke
Sources
- Luke
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
Comments
National Road Heritage Trail - Old National Road Overpass
Jeff,the bridge you mentioned isn't listed on Bridgehunters and it is a part of this trail as you can see on satellite.
National Road Heritage Trail - Old National Road Overpass
This is in Henry County, IN... Not Wayne County
National Road Heritage Trail - Old National Road Overpass
If you swing the street view over to the right, you'll see another abandoned bridge, over County Rd 650 W.
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Yeah, I didn't see it here. According to Sulzer's "Ghost Railroads of Indiana", there was a "general track elevation" between Indianapolis and Richmond during 1909-1910. There's a map of the original track layout on page 87.
It would be an interesting area to explore -- there are the remains of a few more overpasses in the Cambridge City area that aren't documented here, but were likely girders set on concrete abutments, which are still extent, with the fill removed.