Junction Of The Monongahela And Tygart's Valley Rivers

This is an image of the great iron bridge by which the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossed the Monongahela River near Fairmont, West Virginia in The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857.

SHOWING THE GREAT IRON BRIDGE BY WHICH THE BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD CROSSES THE FORMER, NEAR FAIRMONT, 307 MILES FROM Baltimore. THE GAS COAL MINES APPEAR IN THE FOREGROUND.

About this Document

  • Source: The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857
  • Source: Embracing a Full Account of the Opening of the Ohio & Mississippi , and the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroads , and the Northwestern Virginia Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with Histories and Descriptions of the Same; and an Account of the Subsequent Excursion to Baltimore , Washington and Norfolk , and the Receptions and Entertainments There of the State Authorities of Ohio , and the Municipal Representatives of St. Louis , Cincinnati and Chillicothe .
  • Author: Wm. Prescott Smith
  • Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
  • Published: New York
  • Citation: unnumbered
  • Date: 1858