The Western Maryland Railroad built this viaduct to cross Casselman River's wide, shallow valley near Meyersdale. The McClintock-Marshall Construction Company built the 1,900-foot-long steel trestle, losing seven men to accidents in the process. Since the summer of 2001, it has been a part of the Great Allegheny Passage (operated locally by the
Lu Donnelly et al., "Western Maryland Railroad Salisbury Junction Viaduct", [Meyersdale, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-SO13.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 396-397.
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