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Cincinnati Red Stockings Baseball Team – Ohio

Cincinnati Red Stockings Baseball Team - Ohio

The Cincinnati Red Stockings were America’s first all-professional baseball team, and the precursor to Major League Baseball’s Cincinnati Reds Team. They are best known for their period of play between 1866-1870.  During this time,   they helped to establish some of the uniform standards still in use today by professional players, and are responsible for the color red being associated so closely with Cincinnati. They are also linked to the naming of Boston’s own team the Red Sox, as that team formed out of the rapidly changing dynamics of baseball at that time, and a number of the players originally with Cincinnati moved to Boston to form a new team.

Big Four Bridge – Ohio River – Louisville, Kentucky

Big Four Bridge - Ohio River - Louisville, Kentucky

The Big Four Pedestrian Bridge that crosses the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana. The Big Four is a repurposed railroad bridge, that opened in 1895 and ceased operations in 1968. It was opened as pedestrian/bicycle bridge in 2014. The bridge derives its name from the defunct Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, whose name indicates the four major Midwest cities it operated between. The bridge is a railroad truss bridge that spans 2,525 feet. 

Gravel Barge – Ohio River – Louisville, Kentucky

Gravel Barge - Ohio River - Louisville, Kentucky

A gravel barge is seen in late evening traveling up the Ohio River along the waterfront of downtown Louisville, Kentucky.  Across the way are Clarksville and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Barges carrying gravel, stone aggregate, coal, and other commodities are a common sight along the river at nearly all times of the day and night. In many places such as Louisville, and Cincinnati they have to navigate not only multiple bridges where interstate highways cross, but also dam locks. In fact just before this picture was taken the barge shown passed through the McAlpine Lock and Dam system at the Falls of the Ohio.