This bridge was closed recently. The new SR 450 bridge was built years ago. I guess the county did not want to maintain the bridges use for vehicles anymore.
The 1881/1910 Hays Street Bridge is a viaduct consisting of two wrought iron truss spans (one Phoenix Whipple 225-ft span, and one Pratt 130-ft span), and approximately 1000-LF of concrete approaches.
In 1910, the City of San Antonio required the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. (eventually part of Southern Pacific) to construct a viaduct over the railroad tracks at Hays Street. The railway company relocated the two truss spans from elsewhere on its lines.
Records of the Phoenix Bridge Company archived at the Hagley Library in Wilmington, Delaware show that the Whipple truss dates from 1881 and was reconstructed from one or more salvaged spans over the Nueces River west of San Antonio. These records include entries in the company’s customer index as well as copies of the 1910 repair shop drawings showing replacement joint blocks, bearing seats, and lateral bracing struts.
The Whipple truss span is a Phoenix patent design using the now rare Phoenix segmental wrought iron columns with cast-iron joint blocks. The Pratt span has Phoenix-branded components, including the floor beams. Both spans were widened in 1910 from about 16-feet to the current 25-feet.
The bridge is planned for rehabilitation as a bicycle and pedestrian facility by the City of San Antonio, using a Transportation Enhancement grant from the Texas Department of Transportation. Sparks Engineering, Inc. is the design consultant for the project. Plans and specifications were completed in November 2006 and the project is scheduled to begin construction in the spring of 2007.
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Visited this bridge at sunset on 4 Feb '07 so the photos I took could be better with daylight conditions. It can be photographed from the modern bridge just 100 yds. downstream. Also can get photos from the upstream bank from some large rocks that allow you to get a good view. The approach is blocked with chain link fencing and there's plenty of overgrowth. Bridge is posted "Danger-No Tresspassing". I couldn't tell if the opposite approach was blocked off.
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Visited this bridge on 4 Feb '07. Had a hard time locating it and never really got close to it. I turned right at the water plant utility building and then the next left into a semi-dump site. The road to the left of the utility building was rutted real bad and sloppy so I could make it in my car. The photos I took were from about 100 yds. away.
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Visited this bridge 4 Feb '07. It can be best seen from the modern bridge 50 yds. upstream on Hwy 300. There is a locked gate on either side to restrict driving close to it, but you can pull off the road to park on the access and walk 50 yds. to cross over it. Can get good photos from the under the modern bridge.
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This is a Reverse Parker through truss. This may possibly be the only example of Reverse Parker in existance.
Fernbridge and Eel River by Matthew Filar
Chezum Rd. Br. over Redwood Cr. by Matthew Filar 2/3/07
Photos taken February 3, 2007
Local road (J Road) has been re-routed with a new concrete bridge and the stone arch bridge has been left in place.
South arch wall is damaged.
Too bad to not be able to reach the bridge when the river is over the road. My cousin could possibly still be living if her husband would have been able to cross it on the morning of January 15,2007. She died on the way of detour of a heart attack.
I grew up in Lockport near there. I believe that bridge is just down stream of the lock and dam with a good view of it when crossing. Nice to see another Joliet area bridge added to the site. Great site, by the way. I go to another site called airliners.net and the people who frequent that board have made it an extremely popular web site. I have that feeling about this site also.
To whom it may concern,
This old plank bridge (Listed as Canding Road Bridge #20376) is on Landing Road, not Canding Road, and is referred to locally as the Morton Bridge, being close by the old Morton Community and Church of that name nearby. I have traveled over this bridge many times over the last 55 years or so on trips to my Aunts farmhouse just a short distance away from the bridge.
I have enclosed some pics taken in 2004 on the last trip I made to the area with my mother who has always been terrified to cross the bridge on the way to her favorite aunts homeplace just around the corner.
Enjoy.
Does any one know who built the bridge and what year it was built in I would appreciate the information if someone could let me know t5hanks lanette
I don't think this bridge does exist. That or it’s well hidden, because I can't find it either. Miami County has an iron bridge festival and their web site lists the remaining iron bridges in the county, with the exception of paw paw creek. There seems to be very little information regarding this bridge or it’s status.
Pole Cat Creek Bridge, Butler County, Kansas, photo taken by Bill Fales, Jan 2007. Single lane bridge, open to traffic.
Given the description, date, and location of the bridge I believe this to be the bridge in question. It is now a pedestrian bridge in a park in Plainfield, IN. It is a Warren Truss.
From the description given I believe this is the bridge. It has been closed for years.
Orginally named the "Hog's Back Bridge," but the name never took hold. In the late 1940s a cut was made through a limestone ridge - called the "Hog's Back" - to divert the Dry Run Creek directly into the Upper Iowa River. Prior to that, Dry Run Creek ran through Decorah and every year it would flood. The diversion of the Dry Run Creek plus a dike along both sides of the Upper Iowa River eliminated the problem with annual flooding.
This bridge no longer exists. It was taken down and replaced by a modern bridge in 2004.
Does this bridge even still exist? I drove to what I thought was the location of this bridge and found a concrete structure there. I hope this bridge was disassembled and moved instead of torn down!
Photo 7: East abutment on North side
Photo 8: North side center arch
Photo 9: East Arch from North side. Note ice hanging indicating water seeping through bridge.
photo 10: North side, West abutment
Photo 11: West arch from north side. Center concrete loose at bottom allowing higher water level to get in.
Photo 12: Area of new concrete repair. A county worker told me that a snowplow is generally how this type of damage occurs.
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Don't want to hammer GPS points excessively, but website placement seems to place this bridge approx 4 miles east, over Greasey Creek, just west of Stockton lake. That is a new bridge. CR164 bridge location is 37 31.624 93 59.410. I may need some lessons on GPS use, don't claim to know anything about one, so feel free to let me know what I am missing.
Visited after a major ice storm (Ice still in patches on roadway on the dirt roads).
Photo 1: Approach from West (headed East)
Photo 2: North side of bridge taken from West bank
Photo 3: Another choice of the same
Photo 4: East Abutment, South side
Photo 5: Approach from East (headed West)
Photo 6: West abutment, tree growing, North side
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GPS is slightly different than posted. On the Garmin map, posted coordinates places this bridge south of Hwy 174. In reality, it is on the north side, right along the road, as is the other wooden bridge at Chesapeake. Taken from near foot of bridge 37 07.268 93 36.600
Photo 1: From Hwy 174, East side
Photo 2: Approach from Hwy 174
Photo 3: From Hwy 174, West side
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This is immediately on the north of the road. Lawrence CR1208, which is a dead end lane, probably private, though no sign to declare it.
GPS at foot of bridge is just a bit different than posted. 37 07.077 93 41.192
Photo 1: From hwy 174 on East side of bridge.
Photo 2: approach from 174 (south/headed north)
Photo 3: from hwy 174 on West side of bridge
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Photo 7: West Abutment, from north side. 2x12's for unknown reason, maybe a repair prior
Photo 8: Under west end decking on approach. Appears to have metal deck with concrete poured on top. 2x12's mixed in, but not secured very long term.
Photo 9: Upper joint on North side/east end
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CR2100 Bridge, located at the intersection of CR2130 and CR1105.
I did not remember to verify GPS location while there, but the tracking on my GPS shows tht it would be at 37 5.308 93 52.104. I believe that what is currently posted is very close.
I was able to get under the west end and take a photo of the abutment. Not sure what the 2x12's ar for, as the steel beams seem to be sitting solidly on the concrete. Maybe they were used for a redecking repair prior and left. This is two weeks after a major ice storm here and there is a lot of tree debris around.
Photo 1: approach from cr1105/east end
Photo 2: Looking west, south side of bridge
Photo 3: Looking west, North side of bridge
Photo 4: Looking East, west approach
Photo 5: Looking East, South side
Photo 6: West End, North support joint. Concrete deteriation. Limbs are from ice storm
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Has anything bad ever happened under this bridge? I have had dreams about this bridge for years, and it's always bad dreams, that something bad and dark and scary has happened under it....does anyone have any history on it?
The Locust Creek covered bridge is a couple of miles from my house, so I get to see it alot. As you can see this bridge appeares to have been moved, however it sits in the original location, as you probally read this bridge spans the Old channel of Locust Creek. Quite sometime ago the creek was channelized, this left the bridge over an oxbow lake or slough as it may be refered to. Over the years this "Lake" dried up and silted in. The bridge was left in at least 2' of mud. A couple of years ago the bridge was lifed about 6'. New approches were added and timbers were replaced as needed, giving new life to this wonderful piece of Local history! Anyway here are some more pictures of the Bridge.
Here are some more pictures of what is commonly known as the Sumner Road Bridge, as well as some of the Railroad Bridge(not currently in service) beside it. This railroad called the Chillicothe-Brunswick RR
Pictures of the Sumner Road Bridge.
I had traveled the entire Route 66 except for walking the bridge because it was closed at the time. I came back to complete it with my family and we really enjoyed our time on the bridge. Unfortunately, when we returned to our car, it had been broken into and our purses stolen out of the trunk. The sign states "lock your valuables in your trunk". What it doesn't say is that someone is watching you. I wish Trailnet would hire someone to catch the people responsible. I know it would cost a lot, but right now they are stealing thousands from tourists and credit card companies daily!
Here's a photo I took in December 2006
This bridge is being rebuilt in 2007. I've started a very informal study of the existing bridge and any changes. You can see the pix at this web site. Feel free to use any on your site (which is EXCELLENT, by the way).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/sets/72157594465917760/
Glad to see the photo! I have a friend who owns a lake house near here and he claims to have a similar photo. He has been told that the old bridge still remains underwater. That when the water is really low, you can align yourself in a boat by using the old road bed at the banks as a guide and can see it below.
I was bicycling from Florida to points west and crossed this bridge in traffic when the two rivers were in flood, and I couldn't get into Cairo after crossing the Ohio from Kentucky. The other drivers did not appreciate me being out there in front of them on this narrow bridge with my loaded bike, but I made quick work of it even going into the wind. The heavy trucks motivated me!
The bridge was demolished in 2006 and is being replaced by a new structure downstream.
These photos were taken in October, 2006.
Here's a link to some pictures of this bridge:
Photos of this bridge are on my site: http//psr.southeastroads.com/photos_bartowbridges.htm This bridge was removed in 2006 after severe damage and a planned 2007 replacement.
Sigh...not surprised this bridge is gone. I wish I could do anything to save the remaining ones in the Peach State, but it seems they are hell-bent in destroying all history in this state.
It looks like this bridge has a vertical lift section but I don't see that mentioned anywhere here. What's that structure with the little house on top? Possibly the lift machinery?
My grandparents, Anna and Home St. Clair lived east of Lesterville and she worked at Black River Lodge, so I've been over this bridge many times as a child . What's neat is that I have a picture of my three oldest chidlren on this bridge, circa 1970s. Thanks for the website and preserving this bit of history.
This Photograph was taken in 1931
I grew up not more than 2 miles from this bridge at the corner of Old Military and Hwy 270 across from the Rockport Methodist Church. I learned how to drive going across this bridge and seeing the runners on the deck brought back memories of fearing for my life! The boards they laid for the runners would split lengthwise and as the sun heated them up, the boards would curl and pull the nails out. So, not only did you fear driving off the bridge (it was SO narrow) you feared puncturing a tire.
My grandfather, Vernon Lancaster, worked for the water company and was responsible for the pumps housed in the silos. Small world!
I wish I had a dime for every time I have crossed the old bridge. I'd be wealthy. I recently was able to cross the new bridge while in the area visiting and it was so much better than the old one.
This is an article out of a local book showing the Champ Clark bridge when it collasped during construction. I believe there was one person killed. This is becuase everybody else was leaving the construction site for the day. Not many people know about this.
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Photos of the bridge.
Photos of the bridge.
Currently under complete renovation.
October 2006.
My bad. I see you've got the old Wyman bridge pictured below. Sorry for the mistake.
This is the old Wyman bridge, over the middle fork of the White River. It was just off of Hwy. 45, east of Fayetteville, about a half mile from the sewage treatment plant.
It was condemned and replaced approximately 7 years ago.
Email me if you need more info.
NARROWS BRIDGE. And I'm from the Higden side.
Here's another angle taken from the western (Higden) side.
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Where's the pictures?
The "silo in creek" housed the in-take machinery for Rockport/Malverns original water system . If you look closely at some of the pictures you will see a small castle like structure as well. This served as the control room for the water intake system. Both used to be accessible by small walkways from the old bridge. Both structures are made of concrete and are on the national register of historic places.
This bridge was replaced this fall by Bleigh Construction of Hannibal MO. We live near by and have some side railing as a souvenir. I have several photos during the process of tearing down and rebuilding. We loved the old bridge and was very sad in it's dismantle.
January 2007 from west portal.
1st pic is east portal, 2nd is the west, and third is from above as two Union Pacific trains pass eachother on the double track. Pics taken January of 2007.
This bridge no longer exists. Traffic had picked up in the county and it was removed in 2006.
Here is a picture of the Calico road bridge that has since been torn down, it was taken by a freind in 1995. Around here it's known as the Brinkley Bridge.
The amazing thing about this bridge was that the driver actually made it across the bridge! When he couldn't make the hard left on the east end of the bridge he tried backing up over it when it collapsed! What an unnecessary loss.
This bridge was dismantled in the fall of 2006 for its planned relocation to a new site about 1 1/2 miles downsteam. Later this year or in 2008, the covered bridge will be reconstructed on Middle Creek Road where it crosses Cocalico Creek. A new bridge has been built at its original site.
The historic name for this bridge is Keller's Covered Bridge, after the owner of the mill that was lcoated adjacent to its site. Many other webistes refer to this bridge by this name, not Rettew MIll Road Bridge.
This pony truss has been replaced by a modern bridge and no longer exists.
This bridge has been preserved and to be moved to Charlestown State Park for rehabilitation.
This bridge has been torn down.
Sadly, Replaced in Summer of 2006
This pony truss no longer exists.
Hello this is Justin Kinney, I live in Lebanon Indiana in Boone county. Me and my wife Elisha love driving around so last night i found your website and picked 3 covered bridges to go find. Bakers Camp, Rolling Stone, and Pine Bluff. We were on our way to Rolling Stone and once you get off the main road there is a sign that says Road closed on or after 1/2/07. So we creeped past the road closed sign went through the woods a bit and was stoped by large machinery in the road and the bridge was missing. I was very upset to see another covered bridge was torn down. Good to know the other two are still up...
Grew up about 2 miles from this bridge used regularly. It had been in such disrepair and repaired so many times that at times you could see through holes in the deck to the creek below. The crew would simply stuff the holes and pave over them. It was so narrow that if a passenger vehicle and a semi-truck approached from different directions at the same time often one or the other would stop to let to the other vehicle through to as to avoid having pass each other while on the bridge for fear of collision. The border of the rust on the trusses/superstructure are from the flood of 93 and mark where the river crested that summer.
This bridge is definitely gone. I saw it get torn down and I've driven over the new one.
this is off topic ...
But why in the heck is there a cilo in the middle of the creek?
We used to call these the "singing" bridges. They used to have some sort of metal links for the road bed and made a funny sound when you drove over them.
But the metal is gone and now it has a concrete roadbed.
You may have seen that on the AETN special a while back on old bridges in Arkansas. Yes, this is the oldest bridge in Arkansas still open to vehicular traffic. 117 years and counting!
This bridge no longer exists.
This through truss no longer exists.
This through truss no longer exists.
This pony truss bridge has been removed and replaced. - Lee Co. Hwy Dept.
This pony truss bridge was removed in Fall of 2006 and will be reused as a pedestrian bridge near the village of Franklin Grove, Il. - Lee Co. Hwy Dept.
pRETTY SURE THAT'S AT 72 HIGHWAY CROSSING- WHERE THE PRESENT BRIDGE IS NOW.
In 2003 this pony truss was repaced by a modern bridge.
you need to show a picture so i can see what it looks like so i can do my project
I have always been obsessed with maps and roads. As a young child (mid-80s) I would make my mother take me on trips I planned from looking at the County Maps book. This bridge was just over the county line, so I went there fairly often. It's in pretty good shape. I also read that the state is going to "refurbish" it, whatever that means. The graffiti is actually kind of cool (I remember it from my childhood) but there have been some bad things done (illegal dumping, kicked-out boards, etc).
A modern bridge has replaced this pony truss.
The Tull bridge will be left in place with the city of Tull taking it over. The City plans to built a park next to the bridge and build an access ramp up to the bridge so people can walk on it.
I have lived just a few hundred feet from this bridge for the last 40 years and there is nothing like the charm that this quaint old bridge presents. I have crossed it thousands of times and at no time did I feel unsafe. It has been a part of the lives of my children and grandchildren for their entire lives. When my kids were young, they fished from it, as my grandkids have just this last summer. My son had some of his senior pictures taken on the old bridge. My late husband and I used to walk to the old bridge and just stand, holding hands, looking down into the water, watching the fish swim around. It is too bad that more people haven't had such a wonderful old bridge to look at and enjoy for as many years as I have this one.
This bridge is scheduled for demolition and replacement starting in spring 2007. http://www.indygov.org/NR/rdonlyres/ebbe5hxgc2pnulhdc3tm76nw4xoriosievbwyxmmqsrfnjnn7tszjythnvkpcykasnahdca72r725h6o7giyihkfxcc/DeanRoadFinal.pdf
As of October 2006: Great old bridge, still used, but off the beaten path, not defaced by graffiti, in good physical condition, with great photographic potential, in a quiet, picturesque setting.
This Bridge is one of the few Jewels That Toledo has. One morning on the way to work I was driving down Miami St.It was the month of April and extremly foggy. With the Bridge in the fog it looked as if I were in San Francisco. That bridge has been around for decades and is a jewel to the toledo skyline, and When the new skyway bridge down the river several miles is done, Toledo will look even better.
Here's a photo I took of that bridge taken 11 November 2006.
http://www.mylandofmisery.com/roads/mo/mo-photos/Crowder%20Road%20Bridge.jpg
It is on this page: http://www.mylandofmisery.com/roads/mo/mo-photos/mo-photos26.htm
The page also includes a photo of the Thompson River bridge on Crowder Road.
This is one interesting bridge. It was always posted one lane traffic since at least the mid-1960s. If I remember correctly, it had a wooden deck as late as about 1970. It makes for one tough stretch of highway: going westbound, it is just a handful of yards after crossing the bridge before crossing the railroad track, then another short hop to MO 139 at Osgood. I spent my childhood about 7 miles northeast of that bridge, which we used frequently at the time as a shortcut to Trenton. I'll see about getting photos of this bridge in the near future.
I remember that bridge quite well. I lived about three miles east of that bridge from 1975 to 1982. It was simply posted as a narrow bridge until about 1990, and that was an understatement. The only way two vehicles could meet on the bridge was if they were both motorcycles (I think it was only 14 or 16 feet wide). When MoDOT started marking bridges for one-lane traffic for weight concerns, this bridge was included. The bridge is near the unincorporated village of Cora (population around 10 at last check) and is in an area prone to flooding. I'll see about getting pictures of it in the next week.
Locally and in Yell County Court records,this bridge is known as the DALE BEND BRIDGE.
GHOSTBRIDGEHUNTER
Randall Houp
The DANVILLE-MICKLES BOWSTRING BRIDGE is going to be nominated in April 2007 for the National Historic Register. Plans are underway to have this bridge moved back to its original location across the Petit Jean River at Danville Arkansas. The original piers built in 1879 still exist, but are in very poor condition and will have to be rebuilt. Going before the Mayor and the Danville City Council soon. On Febuary 19th I am giving a presentation and talk on the bridge for the Yell County Genealogical & Historical Society at 7pm at the Dardanelle Public Library. We have their full support on this project.
Further updates to follow......
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This pony truss no longer exists.
This pony truss is currently being replaced by a new bridge.
This pony truss is currently being replaced by a new bridge.
This bridge in Herculaneum was closed to all traffic on November 21, 2005. On December 18, 2006, the Spirtas Company began demolition process on the bridge. The bridge was "dropped" into the Joachim Creek on December 27, 2006. Only the north Joachim Avenue approach remained at that date. On January 2, 2007, the north Joachim Avenue portion of the bridge was removed.
Construction has begun on a new replacement bridge that is scheduled to be completed by Spring of 2007.
Here's a link that I found that shows an old photograph of both the new and the old Kimberling City bridges. Hope this helps.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~earlyyrs/schwyhart/kimberlingcitybridges.html
THE COMMENTS THAT PEOPLE ARE MAKING ARE TRUE SOME OF MY FRIENDS AND I WENT UP THERE LAST NIGHT AT ABOUT THREE OR SO IN THE MORNING I JUST WANT TO KNOW THE STORY SO IF ANYONE HAS IT LET ME KNOW BUT YEA ITS HAUNTED FOR SURE.
WE TOOK A PIUC OF MY FRIEND IN THE WOODS AND THERE WAS A PINK ORB ABOVE HIS HEAD THE BRIDGE IS CREEPY ALRIGHT EVERYONE LATER