Tag: truss bridges
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Sunset over the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge
My wife and I spent a weekend in Louisville recently. We hadn’t gotten away since our January trip to Chicago, and we badly needed a change of scenery. So we rented an Airbnb in the heart of downtown and spent our time walking and making photographs. There wasn’t much else to do thanks to the…
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Goodbye to the bridge that kindled my love of bridges
A look back at the truss bridge that used to span the Eel River on State Road 46 in Clay County, Indiana.
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Re-restored: 1892 Holliday Road bridge
The 1892 bridge on Holliday Road in Boone County, Indiana, was restored after being wrecked by a too-large vehicle that crossed it.
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National Road and US 40 bridges over the Wabash River in Terre Haute, Indiana
A look at three successive bridges over the Wabash River along US 40/National Road in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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single frame: Driving across the Chicago Skyway Bridge
A through-the-windshield shot of the Chicago Skyway Bridge.
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single frame: Shadow play on the old truss bridge
An old highway bridge, repurposed on a country road.
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Being rebuilt: the destroyed 1892 Holliday Road bridge
Saved: the incredibly badly damaged 1892 O’Neal Bridge in southeastern Boone County, Indiana.
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It’s always a good day when I get to drive across the Astronaut David Wolf Bridge!
A quick drive over the last steel-truss bridge in all of Indianapolis.
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The one-lane bridge on State Road 225
It’s rare enough to find a truss bridge on an Indiana highway. This one, built in 1912 and only one lane wide, is the king of them all.
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Destroyed: 1892 Holliday Road bridge
The tractor driver said he didn’t know the attachment he was towing was wider than the 1882 truss bridge he was trying to cross. It twisted that bridge like it was made of aluminum foil.