Richard Stern posted three photos with the comment:
Pictures of the Chesapeake and Ohio coal terminal in Cincinnati, Ohio. Coal was dumped here and then loaded into barges. While the railroad still exists on this alignment, the original bridges for both the railroad and the highway have been replaced by newer structures (visible in the second photograph). The coal terminal and its trestles are gone as well.I've always thought when seeing pictures of this place that it must have been really exciting to switch cars into these tracks, with the down grade.
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| 2 I'm guessing this picture was made about 1970. It shows the coal terminal tracks removed, and the structure was torn down shortly after. The Clay Wade Bailey highway bridge on the far left is near completion; it was built on some of the piers of the original railroad bridge. Once the new railroad bridge on the right was built, the old one was dynamited into the river. Covington Kentucky is across the river. Dennis DeBruler I think the track going from left to right on the trestle is the Southern Highline. That route is now Mehring Way. |
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