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Shortway Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pennsylvania through truss bridge over Licking River on KY 1120 in Newport
- Location
- Newport, Kenton County, Kentucky, and Campbell County, Kentucky
- Status
- Imploded in 2003
- History
- Built 1914; replaced 2001; demolished by implosion 2003
- Design
- Riveted, 14-panel Pennsylvania through truss with deck plate girder approaches
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 359.9 ft.
Total length: 1,502.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.1 ft.
- Also called
- Licking River KY 1120 Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.07938, -84.49926 (decimal degrees)
39°04'46" N, 84°29'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/716315/4328562 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Newport
- Inventory number
- BH 18851 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 12, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added NBI info and categories "14-panel truss", "Riveted"
- November 2, 2016: Updated by Clark Vance: Opening date
- March 3, 2014: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added name
- January 3, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Bridge was demolished.
- October 25, 2008: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
Related Bridges
- 11th Street Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- Bill Eichelberger
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- The river ran with blood | NKyTribune - Story of the collapse of a prior bridge during construction. Description of this bridge as replacement.
- Licking River Bridges - Historic Images including this bridge and predecessor
- So long, Shortway: Bridge takes dive into river history - Demolition with linked pictures and video.
Comments
Shortway Bridge
From the Cincinnati Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer. I'm certainly thrilled the onlookers cheered, it was definitely a moment to be proud of.
Shortway Bridge
From July of 2001.
Licking River KY 1120 Bridge
I think this is what was known as the Shortway bridge. I almost skipped classes at Northern kentucky University to watch the implosion.
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You'd think the demolition guy's comment about it being so heavily built would have made somebody think a little. Although I'm guessing the reason for replacement here wasn't so much structural deficiency as width...they still could've reused this for a one-way couplet or pedestrian bridge though.