B&O - Sandusky River Bridge
Photo
BO - Sandusky River Bridge
view c1913 looking west; B&O in center (PRR on left and NYC on right)
Photo from old postcard
BH Photo #505729
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridges over Sandusky River on Baltimore & Ohio RR
- Location
- Tiffin, Seneca County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Railroads
- - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (BO)
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (CCC&StL; Big Four)
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Design
- Through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.11902, -83.17500 (decimal degrees)
41°07'08" N, 83°10'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/317402/4554249 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 94186 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 29, 2021: Updated by Paul Plassman: Tweaked name from "BO" to "B&O" to make it fit in with the other B&O bridges
- September 4, 2021: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added build date
- September 2, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
Related Bridges
- CSX - Sandusky River Bridge (Successor)
- NYC - Sandusky River Bridge (Upstream)
- PRR - Sandusky River Bridge (Downstream)
- B&O - Sandusky River Bridge (1870) (Predecessor)
Comments
Yep, it is.
Thanks for taking the initiative, Paul.
On it for the PRR bridge.
I think the NYC span is
Those bridges should have individual entries instead of being considered part of one, as they're separate structures on different lines.
The south outer bridge was used by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the north outer bridge used by the New York Central.
They are all cool looking in my opinion. Although I am partial to triple and quadruple bascule bridges myself.
https://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=i...
Not as impressive as actual triple-barrelled trusses.
Reminds me of the Blissfield Triple Bridge that used to stand in Blissfield, Michigan.
https://bridgehunter.com/mi/lenawee/nyc---raisin-river/
I don't know how many truss bridge triplets have ever been built in the U.S., but I bet not very many.
Wow, that’s quite the collection of different trusses!
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/seneca/bo-sandusky-river/
Sure thing!
I also have an Images of America book called "Along the Sandusky River" which claims that these railroad spans were the only bridges left in Tiffin over the Sandusky after the 1913 flood, which apparently took out the spans on Huss, Washington, Market, and Monroe streets.