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The Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Bridge is a railroad bridge connecting Louisville, Kentucky's Portland area to New Albany, Indiana, constructed from 1881 to 1885 by the Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Co. and opened in 1886. It included a single rail line and two pedestrian and wagon ways, allowing wagons to cross the river by a method other than ferry for the first time. The Daisy Line, an early commuter service, opened in 1893 and allowed passengers to travel from First Street in Louisville to New Albany. By 1910 there were 1,868,000 passengers for the year on the line.
The original company went bankrupt by 1893 and the bridge and rail lines were acquired by the Kentucky & Indiana Terminal Railroad Co. in 1899.
In 1910 it was rebuilt to handle automobile traffic. Originally the road was built of wood, but in 1952 was replaced by steel gridwork. It would eventually be modified for automobile traffic, but traffic was banned in 1979 following an incident when an overweight dump truck caused a portion of the steel grate road on the bridge to collapse.[1]
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