A Description of the Field Location and Erection of a Wooden Trestle and Steel Viaduct Situated near Oak Vale, W. Va. on the Virginian Railway

Abstract

Five Mile Creek Viaduct is situated at mile post 338.7 on the Virginian Railway, about one half a mile below the town of Oak Vale, West Virginia, and spans a stream known as Five Mile Creek. The bridge is composed of twenty one [?] of timber trestle work extending from station 587+65 to station 590+45 and of 387.5 feet of a deck plate girder viaduct. The original intention of the company was to erect a steel viaduct from grade point to grade point but on account of having an excess of material to find room for because of heavy slides, the timber trestle approach was decided upon, the idea being to gradually fill in until the toe of the fill reached the masonry pedestals of the steel viaduct, the timber trestle being merely a temporary structure. [From introductory section]