Ruins of the Narrow Passage Bridge

ID: 597 ~ Source: Ruins of the Narrow Passage Bridge: Scene of the Great Rail Road Disaster, March 7 1876, Herb Parker General Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
~ Creator: W.O. Towns
~ Date: March 7, 1876

This file appears in: Narrow Passage Railroad Bridge

Drawing showing the ruins of the Narrow Passage Bridge following its collapse on March 6, 1876. Produced by W.O. Towns of Mt. Jackson Virginia.

This file appears in: Narrow Passage Railroad Bridge

Narrow Passage Railroad Bridge

By Shenandoah County Library

The first railroad bridge to cross the Narrow Passage Creek, at what was then called Willow Grove, was built in 1855 by the Manassas Gap Railroad. Its life would be short. The bridge was burned by…