
a.k.a. The Clay Wade Bailey Bridge
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A timeline, to keep various C&O Bridges straight.
| 1886-1889 | The Original C&O Railroad Bridge Built |
| 1929 | A new railroad bridge is built next to the old one; this new bridge is the current bridge for the railroad. |
| 1929 | The original RR bridge is sold to Kentucky; converted for use by auto traffic. |
| 1970 | Original RR bridge (auto traffic since 1929) is blown up. New bridge is built; named for Clay Wade Bailey. |
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Looking toward Covington |
note foreground | 1929 |
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"Chespeake" & Ohio Bridge |
The Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Bridge |
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Bridge |
C & O Bridge, 1937
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| Construction and grand opening of 1929 Bridge |
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The first locomotives, and crews to go over the first 1889 C&O Bridge,
and the rebuilt C&O RR Bridge on April 3, 1929. You can click on the captions under the pictures |
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| The above four images are all from the 1929 L&N Employees Magazine. The accompanying story is here. | |||
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Under the C&O Bridge, looking toward
Covington
C & O Bridge Traffic, circa 1945
C & O in the 1950's
The L & N had trackage rights over the C & O Bridge.
This image is from 1965.
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This is the U. P. Schenck, built in 1876, and later re-named the Longfellow. There aren't pictures of her as the Longfellow. In a thick fog on the morning of March 8, 1895, she hit the C&O Railroad Bridge, and sank in three minutes. The story is here. The New York Times version of the story is here, and has a partial list passengers who drowned. |
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The Cincinnati Transit site has a page on the history of the
C&O Bridge,
here,
and on the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge,
here.
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