By CARL E. FEATHER - Staff Writer - cfeather@starbeacon.com Star Beacon
Number 28 was over Conneaut Creek and was built in 1852. An 1854 publication named “The Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland Guide,” carried an engraving of this bridge under the title “Pageant of America.” The trestle was noted as being the first to appear over the Valley of Conneaut and was for railroad traffic only. The narrative told how many early wooden railroad bridges collapsed under their own weight; however, bridge engineers “quickly learned to use truss construction that made timber bridges reasonably safe under stress and strain.”
Wooden railroad bridges were also subject to fire, not good considering the locomotives back then burned wood to generate the steam.
This same article notes that the first excursion train ever run out of Ashtabula left July 5, 1852, destined for Cleveland on the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad.
Mahoning Coal Railroad, 35-04-43. Listed as crossing the Ashtabula River south of town, this trestle was built in 1880.
Pennsylvania Railroad trestle over Rock Creek, 34-04-54 and 55. These two wooden bridges spanned Rock Creek along the route that is now the Western Reserve Greenway Trail (WRGT). Number 54 was built in 1972 and replaced in 1880 by No. 55.
The WRGT crosses Rock Creek on a former railroad trestle converted to bike path, but that trestle is made of steel.
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