Single track of Canadian National Railway (formerly Illinois Central Railroad)
Crosses
Ohio River
Locale
Wickliffe, Kentucky and Cairo, Illinois
Characteristics
Design
Simple truss bridge, with steel trestle approaches
Total length
20,461 ft (6,237 m) (including approaches)
Longest span
518.5 ft (158.0 m)
History
Opened
October 29, 1889, rebuilt 1949-1952
Location
Cairo Rail Bridge is the name of two bridges crossing the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois in the United States. The original was an 1889 George S. Morison through-truss and deck truss bridge, replaced by the current bridge in 1952. The second and current bridge is a through-truss bridge that reused many of the original bridge piers. As of 2018, trains like the City of New Orleans[1] travel over the Ohio River supported by the same piers whose construction began in 1887.
^"City of New Orlean - Route Guide" (PDF). Amtrak. 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-05.
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