Benwood Railroad Bridge

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View Of Bridge Portrait, Especially Piers, Looking East Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record View photos at Library of Congress

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View Of Bridge Portrait, From Track, Looking West Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record View photos at Library of Congress

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View Of Girder And Under-Truss Detail, West Virginia Side Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record View photos at Library of Congress

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Construction Photo The Bridgemen's Magazine Enlarge

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Photo taken by Janis Ford Enlarge

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Benwood Railroad Bridge West Virginia approach Photo taken by C Hanchey in September 2011 License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) Enlarge

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Great Stone Viaduct Historic Marker Photo taken by C Hanchey in September 2011 License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) Enlarge

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Great Stone Viaduct Ohio Approach Photo taken by C Hanchey in September 2011 License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) Enlarge

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Benwood Railroad Bridge Ohio Approach Photo taken by C Hanchey in September 2011 License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) Enlarge

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview

Through truss bridge over Ohio River on former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Bellaire

Location

Benwood, Marshall County, West Virginia, and Belmont County, Ohio

Status

Open to traffic

History

Built 1871; Ohio River truss spans replaced 1905 by the American Bridge Co.

Builder

- American Bridge Co. of New York

Design

Main spans: Six Parker through trusses
Ohio (west) approach: 43 stone arches

Dimensions

Length of largest span: 347.9 ft.
Total length: 1,435.5 ft.

Recognition

Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1976

Also called

Bellaire Railroad Bridge
B & O Railroad Viaduct
Great Stone Viaduct

Approximate latitude, longitude

+40.01183, -80.73946   (decimal degrees)
40°00'43" N, 80°44'22" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

17/522235/4429102 (zone/easting/northing)

USGS topographic map

Wheeling

Inventory numbers

NRHP 76001370 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 37012 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• January 29, 2012: Updated by C Hanchey: Added bridge builder
• November 30, 2010: New photo from Eric Root
• February 22, 2010: Updated by Joshua Collins: added gps coordinates
• August 1, 2008: Added by J.R. Manning

Sources 

• J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
• HAER WV-15 - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Benwood Bridge, Benwood, Marshall County, WV
• Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
• Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
• Eric Root - ejort [at] att [dot] net
• Janis Ford
• C Hanchey - cmh2315 [at] yahoo [dot] com

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