Kinzua bridge documentary, on Rochester TV tonight. 6/29

Heads-up Rochester!
documentary about the Kinzua bridge is on tonight.
(Wednesday)
10:30 PM on WXXI.

Tracks Across the Sky
Wednesday, June 29, 10:30pm
CHANNEL 21 (WXXI/Channel 21)
A report on the Kinzua Viaduct, constructed in central Pennsylvania in 1882, which was once the world's tallest and longest railroad bridge.

http://www.aptonline.org/catalog.nsf/0/ ... 9500684699

Scot

Thanks for the heads up. I was going to turn in early tonight. Guess not now.

Thanks for the heads-up, Scot!

Yeah, thanks...I caught it. It was great!

Erie? I thought it was an ex-B&O bridge?

-otto-

Nope it is the Erie.

Chris

the BR&P mainline shared the bridge with the Erie,
they had trackage rights over the bridge.
which is where the B&O confusion often comes in.
but it was an Erie bridge..

Scot

Short but bittersweet- nice to discover the history but sad to see what a relatively weak tornado (F0 or F1) could do to it.

I take it that EL stopped running trains across the bridge shortly before it was made into a park in 1963?

I caught it, too--nicely put together!

Matt,
Without checking any sources, if I recall, the Erie stopped using it in either 1959 or 56, can't remember which, but no EL train ever crossed it.

"There was no train traffic on the Kinzua bridge from June 21, 1959 until 1987."


from:
http://www.smethporthistory.org/kinzuaviaduct/

Scot

That's what is says but it's incorrect. Actual last train was October 20, 1959.