Metropolis Bridge
Address is taken from a point 528 yards away.
Metropolis Bridge carries the M62 motorway over the Ohio River.
The Act of Parliament for the Ohio River was passed on 17 September 1816 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. Restoration of Wealden Inclined plane was funded by a donation from the Ohio River Society
There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Ohio - Cumberland Junction | 26.96 miles | |
| Ohio - Tennessee Junction | 14.58 miles | |
| Brookport Bridge | 8.62 miles | |
| Brookport Lock No 52 | 6.52 miles | |
| Interstate 24 Bridge | 4.12 miles | |
| Metropolis Bridge | ||
| Grand Chain Lock No 53 | 22.19 miles | |
| Olmsted Lock | 24.62 miles | |
| Cairo Rail Bridge | 42.31 miles | |
| Cairo Ohio River Bridge | 46.35 miles | |
| Mississippi - Ohio Junction | 48.47 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Metropolis Bridge
The Metropolis Bridge is a railroad bridge which spans the Ohio River at Metropolis, Illinois. Originally built for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, construction began in 1914 under the direction of engineer Ralph Modjeski.
The bridge consists of the following: (from north to south)
- Deck plate-girder approach spans
- One riveted, 9-panel Parker through truss
- Five pin-connected, Pennsylvania through trusses
- One pin-connected, 8-panel Pratt deck truss
- Deck plate-girder approach spans
Total length of the bridge is 6,424 feet (1,958 m). The largest span stretches 708 feet (216 m), and remains the longest pin-connected simple through truss span in the world. Cost of the bridge when built was $4,000,000. (USD)
Not long after completion in 1917, ownership of the bridge was passed on to the Paducah and Illinois Railroad, a newly formed railroad jointly owned by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway. In 1925, the Illinois Central Railroad purchased a 1/3 share of the Paducah and Illinois Railroad, and assumed operations and maintenance, as the bridge served as an important link in their newly completed Edgewood-Fulton Cutoff route.
As of 2013, the bridge is still owned by the Paducah and Illinois Railroad, with operations managed by the Canadian National Railway and bridge maintenance/inspection managed by BNSF Railway, where it continues to see heavy use.