Beaver rail bridge seen from upriver.

The Beaver Bridge is a rail bridge spanning the Ohio River between Monaca and Beaver, Pennsylvania. It consists of two spans: a southern cantilever through truss of 769 feet with 320-foot anchor arms; and a northern camelback through truss of 370 feet. The bridge currently carries two tracks of the CSX railroad. Ohio River viewed from Liberty Hill in Ripley, Ohio. ... Monaca is a borough located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, along the Ohio River, 25 miles (40 km) west of Pittsburgh. ... Beaver is a borough located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. ... A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers: structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end. ... A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements (typically straight) which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. ... Categories: Companies traded on NYSE | Railway companies of the United States | Alabama railroads | Connecticut railroads | Delaware railroads | Florida current railroads | Georgia railroads | Illinois railroads | Indiana railroads | Kentucky railroads | Louisiana railroads | Maryland railroads | Massachusetts railroads | Michigan railroads | Mississippi railroads | New Jersey railroads | New York railroads | North Carolina railroads | Ohio railroads | Pennsylvania...

Second Beaver Bridge.

The bridge was designed by Albert Lucius and built by McClintic-Marshall Company of Pittsburgh between March 1908 and May 1910 for the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The bridge is notable in that the railroad proceeded with the cantilever design despite the collapse of the Quebec cantilever bridge during construction in 1907. The Beaver bridge replaced a single-track bridge built in 1890, 300 feet downstream from the current bridge's position, which itself replaced an 1878 wrought iron bridge at the same location. Pittsburgh as viewed from Mount Washington Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... -1... The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) (AAR reporting mark PLE), also known as the Little Giant, was formed on May 11, 1875. ... The Quebec bridge, with the Pierre-Laporte bridge in the background. ...

See also

• List of crossings of the Ohio River

This is a list of bridges and other crossings of the Ohio River from the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois upstream to the split into the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ...

External links

• Entry at Library of Congress Historic American Engineering Record
• Old photos of Beaver Bridge

Bridges of the Ohio River
Upstream Rochester-Monaca Bridge PA 18	Beaver Bridge	Downstream Vanport Bridge PA 60 / Future