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Chesapeake & Ohio Main Line Bridges Richmond—Charlottesville—Clifton Forge
This book is an overview or short history of the many ordinary and few spectacular bridges, and hidden culverts built on the C&Os Piedmont and Mountains Subdivisions between Richmond up to Hanover Junction, then west over to Charlottesville, Staunton and Buffalo Gap, and then down to Millboro and terminating on the east side of Clifton Forge. These structures were built by the Virginia Central and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, meaning that some are on abandoned alignments, but most are on today’s line used by Amtrak, CSX, and the Buckingham Branch railroads. Many of these bridges were targets of repeated Federal cavalry raids during the Civil War. Cleaner, open-hearth steel processing and improve steel rolling technology became available in the 1890s. A good portion of the bridges on this line were soon replaced and are still being used. Therefore, there are many bridges that have steel being over a hundred years old.
This book complements the Chesapeake & Ohio James River Line Bridges and the Pere Marquette Bridges in Michigan and Ontario heritage Series books.
Includes: details, photos, drawings, data on bridges of the old C&O main line in Virginia (Richmond-Charlottesville-Clifton Forge). Another important book about bridges, interesting for molders especially.
Softbound, 128 pages
Chesapeake & Ohio Main Line Bridges Richmond—Charlottesville—Clifton Forge
This book is an overview or short history of the many ordinary and few spectacular bridges, and hidden culverts built on the C&Os Piedmont and Mountains Subdivisions between Richmond up to Hanover Junction, then west over to Charlottesville, Staunton and Buffalo Gap, and then down to Millboro and terminating on the east side of Clifton Forge. These structures were built by the Virginia Central and Chesapeake & Ohio railroads, meaning that some are on abandoned alignments, but most are on today’s line used by Amtrak, CSX, and the Buckingham Branch railroads. Many of these bridges were targets of repeated Federal cavalry raids during the Civil War. Cleaner, open-hearth steel processing and improve steel rolling technology became available in the 1890s. A good portion of the bridges on this line were soon replaced and are still being used. Therefore, there are many bridges that have steel being over a hundred years old.
This book complements the Chesapeake & Ohio James River Line Bridges and the Pere Marquette Bridges in Michigan and Ontario heritage Series books.
Includes: details, photos, drawings, data on bridges of the old C&O main line in Virginia (Richmond-Charlottesville-Clifton Forge). Another important book about bridges, interesting for molders especially.
Softbound, 128 pages
