Bridges & Tunnels

Northern Kentucky, with the exception of the Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area, is almost all rural with rolling terrain and large expanses of farmland. There is no better setting than that to take a drive into the country and capture and recapture some historic bridges on an unusually warm December afternoon in 2011. I started off by heading [...]

A photographic update to the US 23 Little Sandy River demolition and two photographs of the CSX plate girder bridge adjacent to it.

Not much of a secret that I travel to West Virginia a lot. From my travels, I have encountered a lot of interesting bridges that are endangered or historic. For instance, I discovered a Pratt truss on Gandy Creek on a drive with a friend to Spruce Knob today along Randolph County Route 29, which [...]

It’s no secret that the Waldvogel Viaduct, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, is aging. Constructed in 1940, the viaduct connects the newer 6th Street Expressway and U.S. Route 50 to River Road, Warsaw Avenue and Elberon Avenue. For motorists coming from the east, accustomed the wide lanes of Interstate 75 and the 6th Street Expressway, and the [...]

The 8th Street Viaduct in Cincinnati, Ohio connects Lower Price Hill to Queensgate and downtown. The first iteration of the viaduct was constructed in 1893, and it was rebuilt in 1928.

While traveling to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan earlier in the fall, I came across the picturesque Cut River Bridge along U.S. Route 2 in Mackinac County. The Cantilever deck truss bridge was constructed from 1941 to 1946, and was one of two such spans in the state. The lengthy duration of construction for [...]

Despite having lived along the Ohio River for much of my youth, I neglected to photograph many of the historic spans along the Ohio River. I’ve tried making up for that over the summer, and while in Parkersburg, West Virginia and Marietta, Ohio on business over the summer, I ventured down the Ohio to compile photographs [...]

Just another sunrise from Mt. Adams in Cincinnati, Ohio! I always enjoy this view overlooking the Ohio River, with the Daniel Card Beard (Interstate 471) Bridge as the highlight of the photograph. It was interesting to watch the traffic thicken up from pre-sunrise to post-sunrise along the interstate’s three inbound lanes, and as it began to queue up [...]

While photographing the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in the summer of 2010, I took the opportunity to investigate the back roads south of Gettysburg into Maryland and came across two fascinating and historic bridges.

I often travel to Mason County, West Virginia for pleasure. Home to large family farms along the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, Point Pleasant, Mothman, the Silver Bridge disaster and the slowly-reclaiming West Virginia Ordnance Works, the region is both diverse and quiet. It functions as the crossroads for the region, serving as the terminus for [...]