Ashtabula River

Collapse of steel rail bridge over the Ashtabula River in Ohio on 29 December 1876. The bridge failure was caused by design flaws - the truss members merely rested upon each other instead of being bolted together. 

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Links Sort by: PageRank | Hits | Alphabetical N/A Ashtabula Rail Bridge, 1876 - http://home.alltel.net/arhf/ Collapse of iron and mortar railway bridge. Detailed account, historical notes, enquiry findings and before/after photographs. N/A Memoirs of Philip P. Bliss: Ashtabula Bridge Disaster - http://www.wholesomewords.org/biography/biobliss5.html Newspaper and eye-witness accounts of the Ashtabula, Ohio, railroad train wreck disaster. Parts of this site have been derived from the Open Directory Project Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor