Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 26, 2008

The Big Four Bridge is an abandoned six-span railroad truss bridge that crosses the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States. It was completed in 1895, and updated in 1929. It has its largest span at 547 ft, for 2525 ft in total. It gets its name from the defunct Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, which was nicknamed the "Big Four Railroad". Access to the Big Four Bridge is currently limited, as the access ways onto the bridge for the general public were removed in 1969, earning the Big Four Bridge the nickname "Bridge That Goes Nowhere". The current plans for the Big Four Bridge include making it a pedestrian walkway; the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge downstream is presently the only bridge allowing non-mechanized travel between Louisville and its Indiana suburbs of New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville.