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LN - Newport & Cincinnati Bridge
Description
Total length does not include the 1,130' timber approach trestle.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Linville-Piper Variant Whipple through truss bridge over Ohio River on L&N Railroad
- Location
- Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, and Campbell County, Kentucky
- Status
- Superstructure replaced
- History
- Built 1872; Superstructure replaced 1897
- Builders
- - Jacob H. Linville of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Streetcar
- Design
- Linville-Piper Variant Whipple through truss
North to South:
Timber trestle, 1,130'
Through truss, 100'
Six deck trusses - 1 of 75', 1 of 85', 4 of 80'
Whipple through truss, 85'
Three brick arch spans, 137' total
Two pony truss spans, 92.2' and 96'
Six Whipple through truss spans, 137'; 418'; 237';260'; 202.5'; 202.5'
Three spans, 43.8' each
Seven brick arch spans, 182' total
One span, 35'
Five brick arch spans and approach wall, 236.2' total
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 420.0 ft.
Total length: 3,022.2 ft. (0.6 mi.)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.09802, -84.49775 (decimal degrees)
39°05'53" N, 84°29'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/716389/4330635 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Newport
- Inventory number
- BH 71833 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 4, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added dimensions and more comprehensive design description
- July 17, 2022: New photo from Paul Plassman
- January 18, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added span lengths
- September 4, 2020: New photo from Art Suckewer
- October 15, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added categories "Linville-Piper Truss", "Linville Truss", "Pin-connected"
- April 15, 2016: Added by ArtS
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