Talk:Wheeling Suspension Bridge

Something's messed up with the series boxes

There's two sets of "World's longest suspension bridge span" links at the bottom of the article, with conflicting information. Somebody who's familiar with this should take a look at it and figure out how to fix it. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:47, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

The first Queenston-Lewiston bridge was longer, but was wrecked by the wind in 1864, leaving the Wheeling once again the title holder. JethroElfman (talk) 21:10, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

4000 pound weight limit?

How do they (whoever "they" are) enforce the 4000 lb per car limit? A modern AWD Ford Taurus is over 4000 lbs empty and even a little Honda Civic can be over 2 tons with just 2 fat people and a week's luggage. If 4000lb/vehicle is truly all the bridge can safely support, then the bridge should be closed immediately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.229.73.57 (talk) 02:05, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

The 2-ton weight limit is posted on a sign just like any other weight limit. There are also steel beams mounted above the roadway to prevent larger vehicles (i.e., trucks) from crossing. Bitmapped (talk) 22:39, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

William Hildebrand?

This links to a politician, but I am almost certain the engineer in question is Wilhelm Hildebrand, a German immigrant who worked on the Brooklyn Bridge, Pikes Peak Cog Railway and other major late 19th century projects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.112.184.251 (talk) 14:29, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

In any case the William Hildenbrand on Wikipedia was born in 1921 so probably didn't work on a bridge in 1874. I removed this link and the one to William McComas; this McComas (1795-1865) was contemporaneous with the 1859 work on the bridge and also lived in what became West Virginia, but was a politician, minister, lawyer and farmer, not an engineering partner of Charles Ellett. Agashlin (talk) 17:30, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

more work needed

I worked on this article this morning, thinking to link it to articles on two West Virginia legislators I worked on last night. I'm not in a library and don't know when I'll have time to get to a law library to even get the appropriate case citations, much less the legal history book written on the case.Jweaver28 (talk) 16:33, 13 June 2017 (UTC)