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WVR-Walhonding Bridge
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Railroad bridge to the Left. Covered Bridge lost in the 1913 flood.
Pre 1913 photo
BH Photo #492497
Description
A small railroad line quickly absorbed into the massive Pennsylvania Railroad network.https://www.abandonedrails.com/walhonding-valley-branch
Likely removed in 1942 when the county was collecting scrap metal for the war effort.
The Walhonding Valley Railway was built in 1892-3. This bridge and the other pre-1913 spans over the Mohican and Walhonding rivers from Loudonville to Coshocton likely date from this time.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Walhonding River on Walhonding Valley Railroad
- Location
- Coshocton County, Ohio
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built ca. 1890's; 2 spans destroyed in 1913 flood when nearby covered bridge was washed into them; removed after the line was abandoned in 1936.
- Railroads
- - Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Toledo, Walhonding Valley & Ohio Railroad
- Walhonding Valley Railroad
- Design
- (3)6-panel Pratt through trusses
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.35826, -82.13701 (decimal degrees)
40°21'30" N, 82°08'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/403452/4468142 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 92348 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 30, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added extra history and categories "6-panel truss", "Pin-connected", "Great Flood of 1913"
- March 9, 2021: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added category "Toledo, Walhonding Valley & Ohio Railroad"
- March 8, 2021: New Street View added by Jeff Wieland
- March 7, 2021: New photo from Tony Dillon
Sources
- Paul Plassman
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Jeff Wieland
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For what it's worth, this section of the line from Coshocton to Brinkhaven seems to have really taken a pounding in the 1913 flood, with nearly every bridge suffering damage or total destruction. At least some of the bridges were thus complete replacements after the flood...still researching whether this was one of them.