New River Bridge Company

From West Virginia Railroads - Model Railroading

On January 25, 1887, the New River Bridge Company was incorporated in West Virginia, and purposed to construct and maintain a toll bridge across the New River at or near the mouth of Arbuckle Creek, present-day Thurmond (http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Thurmond%2C_West_Virginia), Fayette County (http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Fayette_County). The original incorporators were: Frank Lyman, A. Augustus Low, Seth Low of Brooklyn, NY; M. Erskine Miller and H. M. Bell of Staunton, VA.

In October of 1887, the company began construction of a railroad bridge across the New River (http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/New_River) at Thurmond, to connect the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) at Thurmond with the Greenbrier & New River Railroad (G&NR) track on the opposite side of New River. On March 11, 1889, the C&O leased the bridge, while it was still under construction. The bridge was completed in April of 1889, and was acquired by the C&O on October 24, 1890.