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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge

Allegany County, Maryland, and Morgan County, West Virginia
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Overview
Warren deck truss bridge over Potomac River on Old Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Location
Allegany County, Maryland, and Morgan County, West Virginia
Status
Closed to all traffic
Design
Warren deck truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.60591, -78.42504   (decimal degrees)
39°36'21" N, 78°25'30" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/721070/4387186 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Paw Paw
Inventory number
BH 50452 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Allegany County, Maryland (36)
Closed (2,075)
Deck truss (955)
Maryland (423)
Morgan County, West Virginia (22)
Railroad (4,075)
 State line crossing (514)
Truss (23,574)
Warren deck truss (340)
Warren truss (3,961)
West Virginia (982)

Update Log 

  • December 6, 2011: Updated by J.P.: forgot bridge crosses state line and corrected that.

Sources 

  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge
Posted December 7, 2011, by Barry (bllauver [at] toad [dot] net)

Not absolutely certain. I think you will find that this bridge was part of the Western Maryland Railway, which crossed and recrossed the Potomac River many times between Hancock MD and Cumberland MD. The low grade (original) B&O line followed the West Virginia bank of the Potomac almost all the way to Cumberland.