Rating:
42365
{89}%
5 votes
CSX - Thomas Viaduct
Description
The Thomas Viaduct was the first masonry arch bridge built on a curve and remains the largest of its type. Built by the Baltimore & Ohio it remains in use by B & O successor line CSX.
Facts
- Overview
- Eight-span stone arch bridge over Patapsco River on the B&O Railroad between Relay and Elkridge
- Location
- Arbutus, Howard County, Maryland, and Baltimore County, Maryland
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1835
- Builder
- - Benjamin Henry Latrobe II of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Designer)
- Railroads
- - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (BO)
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Design
- Stone arch
- Dimensions
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Total length: 612.0 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.22192, -76.71317 (decimal degrees)
39°13'19" N, 76°42'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/352113/4342801 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Relay
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 66000388 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 42365 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 16, 2016: New photo from Dave King
- March 17, 2016: New photo from Luke
- April 16, 2015: New photos from David McCardell
- September 29, 2014: New photos from Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- May 26, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added cities
- September 26, 2012: New photos from Jann Mayer
- August 17, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
- October 2, 2010: Updated by Ed Hollowell: Added discription.
- April 19, 2009: Posted HAER photos
Sources
- HAER MD-3 - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Thomas Viaduct, Spanning Patapsco River, Elkridge, Howard County, MD
- Ed Hollowell - erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Jann Mayer - jannmayer [at] gmail [dot] com
- Luke
- Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- David McCardell - mccardelldavid [at] gmail [dot] com
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com