Trail/BigFour+B&O Bridge over Ohio River at Louisville, IL

3D Satellite
[I saved the image because it captures the pier work
for the new part of the I-64 bridge.]

(Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges, includes videos of light shows)

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I waited for this 15-barge tow to pass under the bridge. Under the first span, you can see construction of one of the towers for the new cable-stay highway bridge.

I had to worry about getting my shoes in the mud when I took this shot.

They have built ramps on both ends to turn the bridge into a trail.

So now you can get detail shots of the riveting.

And other perspectives that would otherwise be very illegal.

Fans of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad posted
I have to assume that this bridge was the forerunner of the BIG-4 bridge. Note the double headed engines and about a dozen cars. The approaches must have been a very steep grade.
[The B&O/Ohio & Mississippi shared a route between North Vernon, IN and Louisville, KY.]

Chris Stivers posted
Big 4 Bridge in Louisville Ky

Bill Pruehousner commented on Leo's posting
Pedestrian approach to the bridge (2015)

Glenn A Marriner posted
Here a shot my friend and me took. We're trespassing, we climbed approximately 400' straight up on the support pillars on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river in Louisville in 1998. This is looking towards Jefferson and Clarksville Indiana over the Ohio. The old Big Four CCC&SL bridge, now a foot bridge.

Brian Little posted

Chris Spear posted
The Big Four in Louisville, Ky. on fire. Now a rail trail, iirc. Not my photo.
Troy Nolen How does a rail trail burn?
Chris Bollinger That's before it became a rail trail.

Brian Patterson posted
Ben StalveyGroup Admin 4100
[The reason for including this posting is the following comment. Waterways are not only good for bulk materials, they are good for oversized loads. To transport that crane by trucks, it would have to be disassembled and then reassembled.]

Noah Schell commented on Brian's posting
I’m on that boat here’s us going down through downtown Louisville

Facebook postings: Gary Miller (colored lights at night), Raymond Noel, Ralph Berg, Michael Fromholt, Chris Kilroy, and Joseph Hoffman (16 photos).

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CSX/Big Four Avon 1907 Bridge over White Lick Creek

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Built 1907 for the Big Four Railroad, rehabilitated in 1998 [Bridge Hunter]

Robert Holton posted

A supposedly haunted rail bridge in Avon, Indiana where the wails of track workers entombed in the cement works can be heard above the roar of trains overhead.

One of the most reported stories is that an Irish construction worker slipped and fell in a vat of wet cement inside the framework of one of the piers and drowned. Since he was already dead, the railroad company didn't want to waste money to retrieve the body, they left it in the pier and the workers carried on with construction. People now say that at night, you can hear his hammer pounding from when he was trying to get out of the concrete. [Bridge Hunter]

This bridge is one of two concrete arch bridges along this stretch of railroad line. The bridge has spalled severely, which has diminished its architectural details. It likely remains structurally intact however due to how heavily overbuilt these bridges were. With a 1906 construction date, this bridge is an early surviving example of a concrete arch bridge. [Historic Bridges] 

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Aban/CR/Big Four (Egyptian Line) 1905 Bridge over Iroquois River north of Kentland, IN

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I was going to pass on yet another truss bridge. But when I noticed Kentland, IN, I decided to investigate because I did not remember  that it had a north/south route. The east/west route still exists as the TP&W. I learned that the north/south route was the Egyptian Line and that a remnant to the north still exists to serve some industries.

Tyler Haack posted four photos with the comment: "Abandoned New York Central truss bridge over the Iroquois River in Kentland, IN."
Dennis DeBruler Part of the Big Four's Egyptian Line that went all the way south to Cairo, IL. At one time the Milwaukee Road also used this route to get to their tracks south of Danville.
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