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Sharps Tunnel

Posted on September 24, 2022September 24, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

Nestled in Pocahontas County, West Virginia is Sharps Tunnel along the former Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Greenbrier Division.

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Erie Avenue Bascule Bridge

Lorain’s Black River Bridges

Posted on September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

On September 26, 1940, before a crowd of 50,000, two new bridges opened in Lorain, Ohio.

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Birmingham Bridge

Birmingham Bridge’s Complicated History

Posted on September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

The Birmingham Bridge has a complicated history in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Carter Memorial Bridge

Sunsets Over Charleston

Posted on August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

The sun sets over the Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge on another evening in Charleston, the capital city of West Virginia

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Forge Covered Bridge

Exploring Four Covered Bridges in the Catskills

Posted on July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

I recently spent some time in the Catskill Mountains of New York exploring its many waterfalls and covered bridges.

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Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Cincinnati Bridge

Chesapeake & Ohio Railway’s Cincinnati Bridge

Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Bridge over the Ohio River between Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio has an interesting history.

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Burnside Bridge (US 27)

The Bridges and Tunnels of Burnside, Kentucky

Posted on May 31, 2022June 6, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

Numerous bridges (and a tunnel) carry highway and railway traffic across the Cumberland River and Lake Cumberland in Burnside, Kentucky.

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Johnson Road Covered Bridge

Four Appalachian Covered Bridges

Posted on March 29, 2022March 29, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

Taking advantage of fresh powder in March, I visited four covered bridges in northeast Kentucky and southeast Ohio.

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Oakley Clark Collins Memorial Bridge

Bathing a Bridge in LED Light

Posted on February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

In a prior post about the Oakley Clark Collins Memorial Bridge, I lamented about the light pollution generated from the structure’s massive LED lights that point upward. Let’s revisit that.

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New River Gorge Bridge

A Winter Escape to New River Gorge

Posted on January 19, 2022January 19, 2022 by Sherman Cahal

After a warm and mostly snowless December, January has produced one snowstorm after another. Taking advantage of the last storm over the past few days, I camped out near Fayetteville, West Virginia, and captured the scenery around America’s newest National Nark: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.

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