Cantilevers enabled bridge builders to span longer distances than truss bridges. During the nineteenth century, cantilevers were frequently used to build railroad bridges.
Walk over the railroad bridge where I used to watch the trains pulling out and feel all sick inside wondering where the hell she could be.
Hitting the homestretch in fall: on a former railroad bridge in the Great Allegheny Passage in Pennsylvania.
A simple method to predict earthquake damage to railroad bridge is proposed.