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National Boards => Bridges => Topic started by: BrianP on March 27, 2015, 05:28:50 PM

Title: Blaine Hill Bridge
Post by: BrianP on March 27, 2015, 05:28:50 PM
Has anyone checked out the Blaine Hill Bridge? It was on the old national road in Blaine OH.  I happened to see another bridge in the shadow of the US 40 bridge on google maps.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0668464,-80.8207567,210m/data=!3m1!1e3

There are a couple of images on Goog:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.066906,-80.821384,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1s6823105!2e1!3e10
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.066779,-80.82055,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m5!1e2!3m3!1s116910432!2e1!3e10

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/back0105.cfm

This bridge isn't listed on the S bridge page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_bridge

The current US 40 viaduct was built in 1933:
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=12618

Also in this pic you can see the 1933 viaduct has also been rehabilitated:
http://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=290920
Title: Re: Blaine Hill Bridge
Post by: Bitmapped on March 29, 2015, 09:59:27 AM
I've been to it a couple times and the Wheeling roadgeet meet I hosted a couple years ago stopped at it.  I have photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/bmpowell/sets/72157606128746475.
Title: Re: Blaine Hill Bridge
Post by: Alps on April 11, 2015, 01:57:38 AM
I went down there. It's not the most scenic of the older bridges, as there's a bunch of stuff all over it now to make it look pretty and neighborhoody. You do get some nice views of the "newer" bridge above it.