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B&O - Parkersburg Bridge (Old)
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Ohio River on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
- Location
- Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Construction started July 9, 1869, and the bridge opened January 7, 1871
- Builders
- - B&O Mount Clare Shops of Baltimore, Maryland
- Jacob H. Linville of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Railroad
- - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O; BO)
- Design
- 2 Linville-Piper Variant Whipple through trusses; Varying lengths of 348 feet 9 inches and 347 feet 9 inches
4 Linville-Piper Variant Whipple deck trusses; Varying between 209 feet and 315 feet
Parkersburg Approach: 22 Bollman Trusses with spans varying from 50 feet to 100 feet.
Belpre Approach: 6 Bollman Trusses varying in length from 121 feet to 124 feet. - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.27089, -81.56506 (decimal degrees)
39°16'15" N, 81°33'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/451257/4346989 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 83109 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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