Tag: truss bridges
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Endangered: 1925 pony truss bridge on southern Indiana’s Dixie Highway
One of my favorite old highway bridges, on a section of old State Road 37 south of Martinsville, Indiana, has been closed to traffic. See before and after photographs here.
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The bridge on Holliday Road
A repeat of a 2011 post about a beautifully restored 1890s truss bridge just off the Michigan Road in Boone County, Indiana.
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Endangered: The 38-span William H. Murray Bridge on Route 66 in Oklahoma
The wonderful yellow pony bridge on Oklahoma’s Route 66 is endangered.
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Restored and repurposed: The Houck Iron Bridge
Putnam County, Indiana, is so rich in old bridges that when my friend Dawn and I set out to tour them four years ago, we couldn’t fit them all into a single day. Most of Putnam County’s old bridges were well used and needed a little maintenance. A few of them had fallen into such disrepair…
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Great bridges on Route 66
Ok, so I’m going to level with you. I wanted to write a whole post about just this bridge. 38, count them, thirty-eight glorious spans! It’s almost 4,000 feet long! It absolutely took my breath away. I forgive you if you don’t share my enthusiasm. It’s officially known as the William H. Murray Bridge, but I…
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A new home for the Houck Iron Bridge
One warm summer Saturday in 2010, my frequent road-trip companion Dawn and I visited as many of the old bridges in Putnam County, Indiana, as we could. We ran out of daylight as we explored the 17th bridge; we had at least five more on our list that we promised ourselves we’d visit another day.…
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The bridge on Holliday Road
I pass Holliday Road every time I follow the Michigan Road north out of Indianapolis. For a long time a giant Bridge Out sign blocked the road. When the sign disappeared in 2009, I figured that an old bridge back there had been replaced. So I visited bridgehunter.com, certainly the finest site about US historic…
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Saying goodbye to the old bridge at Bridgeport, Ohio on the National Road
Wheeling, West Virginia, is well known for its suspension bridge that carried the National Road across the Ohio River. It delivers westbound travelers onto Wheeling Island, and from there they must cross the Ohio River’s backchannel to finally enter Ohio at the little town of Bridgeport. That, of course, involves another bridge. This map shows…
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The bridge on Prince William Road
An old highway bridge repurposed on an Indiana country road.
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A quiet drive down Old Old US 50 in southwestern Indiana
A one-lane bridge on the original alignment of US 50 in southwestern Indiana.
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Root beer and dead ends in Washington
US 50 has a colorful history in terms of realignments across southwestern Indiana. I-64 was originally going to be built along the US 150 corridor from Louisville to about Shoals, where it would pick up US 50 on its way to Illinois. But lobbying got I-64 built farther south, passing closer to Evansville. That didn’t…