Salisbury Viaduct

Salisbury Viaduct. The spectacular crossing of the Casselman River Valley. , The Salisbury Viaduct, 1908 feet long, dominates the valley. The 101-foot-high steel trestle was a key engineering achievement for the Western Maryland Railway's Connellsville Extension. Hundreds of spectators cheered when the first train crossed in 1912. Like all the bridges on this part of the Western Maryland, it was built to accommodate a second track, which was never added. Abandoned as a through-route in 1975, it was decked for trail use in 1998., (Captions):, Engineers use cuts and fills to create a level grade. This is how railroads built a fill in 1911. A trestle with railroad rails on top was built and cars full of excavated dirt and rock were run out on the wooden structure and dumped, eventually burying the trestle. This fill is the one that leads up to Salisbury Viaduct. The concrete arch bridge was for a county road., Disaster struck Salisbury Viaduct on July 10, 1911 when a traveling electric crane crashed to the ground while lifting a 14.5 ton girder. Six men were killed and one seriously injured in the accident. A month later, another worker died when he fell off the deck of the viaduct.