Norfolk Southern stack train at High Bridge, Ky 5/12/2009

A long Norfolk Southern container train is SB across High Bridge at High Bridge, Kentucky 5/12/2009. The Kentucky River is 275 feet below the 1,125 cantilever span. When completed in 1877, this first cantilever bridge in the U.S. was the highest and longest in the world. It was rebuilt without halting service in 1911, and double tracked in 1929. It carries the former Southern Railway, now Norfolk Southern on the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad, which is owned by the City of Cincinnati and leased to the carrier.

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[HappyJack01]

Actually the bridge of 1911 is 308 feet high. The 1877 bridge was 275 but the new bridge was built higher. This bridge is often confused with Young's High Bridge which 288 feet high a few miles north on the Kentucky River. That bridge was built in 1888. The railway is the Cincinnati Southern Railway which is leased to the CNO&TPR which was bought by the Southern RR which became a part of Norfolk Southern. The Cincinnati Southern Railway runs from Cincinnati to Chattanooga.

[GageRules2]

Nice vid i saw that train in Danville

[ChessieSeaboardX]

One word. Awesome!!!