The M & O Railroad Trestle

Constructed for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad in 1898 by civil engineer Benjamin Hardaway, an 1887 graduate of The University of Alabama and former Tuscaloosa City Engineer, this wooden and steel truss bridge was originally 135 feet high with a 110-foot clearance and was once considered by many to be the country's longest trestle at 3600 feet. Along with Old Locks One, Two and Three, it greatly improved transportation in West Alabama and heralded an era of economic development in the early 20th century. In later years the M and O Railroad became successively the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio, the Illinois Central Gulf, and the Kansas City Southern.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama · United States