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The Beaver Bridge is a rail bridge spanning the
Ohio River The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi Riv ...
between Monaca and
Beaver, Pennsylvania Beaver is a borough in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is located near the confluence of the Beaver and Ohio rivers, approximately northwest of Pittsburgh. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,438. ...
. It consists of two spans: a southern cantilever through truss of with anchor arms; and a northern camelback through truss of . The bridge currently carries two tracks of
CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the lead ...
. The bridge was designed by Albert Lucius and built by McClintic-Marshall Company of
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of Un ...
between March 1908 and May 1910 for the
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P≤ ), also known as the "Little Giant", was formed on May 11, 1875. Company headquarters were located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The line connected Pittsburgh in the east with Youngstown, Ohio, in the ...
. The bridge is notable in that the railroad proceeded with the cantilever design despite the collapse of the Quebec cantilever bridge during construction in 1907. The Beaver bridge replaced a single-track bridge built in 1890, downstream from the current bridge's position, which itself replaced an 1878 wrought iron bridge at the same location.


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania __NOTOC__ The following bridges in Pennsylvania are documented by the Historic American Engineering Record. Bridges See also * List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania Notes References {{A ...
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List of crossings of the Ohio River This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Ohio River from the mouth at the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois to the confluence of the Allegheny River, Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Penns ...


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Monaca-Beaver Railroad Bridge
at Bridges & Tunnels *

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Ohio River The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi Riv ...
, bridge = Beaver Bridge , bridge signs = ''CSX Transportation'' , upstream = Rochester–Monaca Bridge , upstream signs = , downstream = Vanport Bridge , downstream signs = Bridges completed in 1910 Bridges over the Ohio River CSX Transportation bridges Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Railroad bridges in Pennsylvania Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania Cantilever bridges in the United States Truss bridges in the United States Bridges in Beaver County, Pennsylvania 1910 establishments in Pennsylvania