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Bollman Truss Railroad Bridge

USA / Maryland / Maryland City /
 place with historical importance, truss bridge, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, bridge, 1860s construction, U.S. National Historic Landmark

www.sha.state.md.us/KeepingCurrent/maintainRoadsBridges...

Spanning the Little Patuxent River is the sole surviving example of the bridging system invented, 1850, by Wendel Bollman, Baltimore engineer. It was the first system, entirely of iron, used by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the first in America. Through 1873 the company built about 100 such bridges.

www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=98
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Coordinates:   39°8'5"N   76°49'30"W
This article was last modified 3 years ago