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The urban center and Ohio Railroad Crossings at the Potomac area unit a group of railroad bridges that span the Potomac between Maryland Heights, Maryland and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia within the us. 2 bridges comprise this crossing. The newer bridge may be a deck plate beam bridge geological dating to 1930-31 that curves across the watercourse, carrying the urban center and Ohio Railroad itinerary to Martinsburg, West Virginia.
The older bridge may be a steel Pratt truss and plate beam bridge geological dating to 1894, carrying the B&O vale line toward Winchester, Virginia on the Shenandoah watercourse. A tunnel was engineered at constant time because the 1894 bridge to hold the tracks through Maryland Heights and to eliminate a pointy curve. The western finish of the tunnel was widened in conjunction with the development of the second bridge to permit the broadest attainable curve across the watercourse.
Just downstream of the 1894 bridge, nearly at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, area unit the ruins of 2 previous bridges on constant alignment. The newer of the bridges was a Bollman bridge that carried rail and road traffic from 1870 till 1936, once it absolutely was hyped up by a flood. The vale line section of the Y-shaped bridge dated to 1851, and was one amongst the earliest Bollman trusses existing.
The remainder of the bridge was destroyed within the war, to get replaced by temporary structures. Its precursor, in-built 1824, was designed by Benjamin H. Designer was a timber span, with the Y-leg to Winchester superimposed in 1839. Associate degree earlier road bridge had been in-built 1824, commutation Harper’s Ferry, that had operated since 1747.
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