Swapping out posting in one very long thread and seeing if this isn't a better format. I've had to switch to a different gallery format for Bridges & Tunnels, and so all old photographs will eventually break by December. All of the galleries have been remastered and reuploaded and are now shown at much higher resolutions.

 

Sunrises and Sunsets Along the Ohio River

 

The views are always different and spectacular with each trip down the Ohio River. On a recent visit to the Ashland, Kentucky region, I stopped to take in a sunrise at the Ironton-Russell Bridge that connects Ironton, Ohio and Russell, Kentucky. The cantilevered camelback Pratt through truss was opened in 1922 as the first highway bridge between Parkersburg and Cincinnati over the Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

A cable-stayed replacement is being constructed just upstream and will open in 2015.

 

 

The East Huntington Bridge between Huntington, West Virginia and Proctorville, Ohio was constructed between 1983 and 1985 at a cost of $38 million. The span, designed by Arvid Grant and Associated of Opympia, Washington, was the first bridge of its type in West Virginia and only the third of its type in the United States. A second phase, which would have included a toll plaza and a connection to U.S. Route 60, was never completed.

 

 

 

 

The <a href="http://bridgestunnels.com/bridges/ohio-river/simon-kenton-suspension-bridge/]Simon Kenton Suspension Bridge[/url] carries U.S. Route 62 over the Ohio River between Maysville, Kentucky and Aberdeen, Ohio, and was opened to traffic in November 1931 at a cost of $1.6 million. It was renovated in 2002 and has never looked better.

 

 

The William H. Harsha Bridge carries U.S. Route 68 west of Maysville into Ohio. Planning for a bypass of Maysville began in the early 1990s, and construction on the Ohio River span began in 1997. The last cable was strung on May 12, 2000 and the two-lane highway opened that October as Kentucky's first cable-stayed span.

 

 

 

A coal fired power station looms over the background.

 

 

 

Enjoy!

Are ALL the bridges being built on the Ohio in the last 20 damn years cable-stayed???

The Milton-Madison Bridge between Kentucky and Indiana is a new truss, as is the Kennedy/I-65 bridge in Louisville. But it's pretty rare to find something new south of Pittsburgh that isn't cable-stayed.