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Little Pipe Creek Bridge And Viaduct
The Little Pipe Creek bridge and viaduct is a continuous truss bridge with a main span and 19 viaduct sections as well as an active Trestle bridge, railroad trestle crossing Little Pipe Creek south of Keymar, Maryland. Originally constructed by the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad Company, Frederick and Pennsylvania Line Railroad Company (F&PL). Construction on the trestle began in late 1871 and continued until April 1872. The Pennsylvania Railroad acquired control of the F&PL in 1896 and rebuilt the bridge that year as an open deck riveted iron plate under a girder bridge and then again in 1902-1903 using steel in the bridge and trestle. In 1915, the bridge was surveyed as part of the Interstate Commerce Commission's effort to establish freight rates for the parent railroad. The United States Railroad Administration rebuilt the creek span circa 1917. Additional work rebuilding the bridge and trestle was performed from 1982 to 1989 by the Maryland State Railroad Administra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryland Midland Railway
The Maryland Midland Railway is a Class III railroad, Class III short-line railroad operating approximately 63 miles of track in central Maryland. It was originally headquartered in the former Western Maryland Railway Union Bridge Station, station in Union Bridge, Maryland: it has since moved to a new facility across from the old station. The railroad has been 87.4% owned by Genesee & Wyoming since 2008, with Lehigh Cement (the largest shipper on the line) retaining a 12.6% interest. The railway currently operates from Highfield-Cascade, Maryland, Highfield, Maryland (west) to Glyndon, Maryland (east), via a two-mile loop through Franklin County, Pennsylvania, and also from Woodsboro, Maryland (south) to Taneytown, Maryland (north). The line terminates north of propane dealer Ferrellgas near Angell Road. History Operations began in 1980 over a section of ex-Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad's Frederick Secondary line from Taneytown, Maryland, Taneytown to Walkersville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
