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Once
again the St. Louis & Southeastern was bought out and became the
Henderson Division of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
About the same time (1879) L&N secured control of the
Henderson Bridge Company which had proposed the building of the Ohio
River Bridge. This bridge and its approaches had a total length of 27,995
feet and the channel span of 525 feet was the largest trestle span in
the world at that time. The
new structure was a thing of beauty and was entirely adequate for the
traffic of that day. The
bridge, completed and opened for traffic on 13 Jul 1885 at a total cost
of about $2,000,000.00.
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