The Scranton Road Overpass consists of a camelback Pratt through truss over Scranton Road and Fairfield Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Scranton Road Overpass consists of a camelback Pratt through truss over Scranton Road and Fairfield Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
In the 19th century, the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, also known as the Nickel Plate Road, expanded its route through Cleveland. 1 3 As part of the construction of the bridge over the Cuyahoga River in 1882, a truss span was built over Scranton Road and Fairfield Avenue. Initially, when it was constructed, the average weight of locomotives was 66 tons. 3 However, by 1907, locomotives had become significantly heavier, averaging 145 tons, which led to the replacement of the bridge over Scranton Road and Fairfield Avenue in 1910.
In 1964, the Nickel Plate Road merged with several other Midwestern carriers to form the larger Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W). N&W then combined with the Southern Railway in 1982, resulting in the formation of the Norfolk Southern Railroad (NS).
Details
- State: Ohio
- Route: Norfolk Southern Railroad
- Status: Active (Railroad)
- Type: Pratt Through Truss
- Total Length: 205'
- Main Span Length: 0
- Spans: 0
- Deck Width: 0
- Roadway Width: 0
- Height of Structure: 0
- Above Vertical Clearance: 0
- Navigational Clearance: 0
Sources
- Watson, Sara Ruth and John R. Wolfs. Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland, 1981.
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- Bluestone, Daniel M., ed. “New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Viaduct.” Cleveland: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites, Historic American Engineering Record, 1978, p. 87.