Cool Bridges In Your Area

[adventurernumber1]

I am wildly surprised there isn't already a thread like this, but here it is.

Yesterday I spent the day in Chattanooga with my family, and we went on Hamill Road for the first time. Very cool road to begin with, and while on it we crossed a very interesting, older-looking bridge. This is the bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@35.1294219,-85.2150672,3a,75y,278.29h,86.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sTZLZRCzZDyiB6Gr1_tzZjQ!2e0

I thought this was pretty cool, and never knew about it.

[NE2]

Looks like standard Texas railing.

Here's the bridge: http://uglybridges.com/1502342

[Roadrunner75]

I think this is still closed at the moment due to damage from an overweight truck but...
https://www.google.com/maps?ll=40.111832,-74.044609&spn=0.000004,0.00327&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=40.111832,-74.04512&panoid=Pp_jMJ1W82a4Tl2l0weMOw&cbp=12,100.24,,0,2.25

[US71]

This one was less than 10 miles from me before it was replaced. Poteau River US 271 Pocola, OK

[freebrickproductions]

I always thought that this bridge is rather neat:
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0153125,-85.6947844,3a,75y,105.34h,86.53t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sQw_SQiI1VmkHFy5GlG0yWQ!2e0

[bugo]

Jenks bridge over the Arkansas River between Jenks and Tulsa in Oklahoma. It's hard to get a good picture of it showing off all 19 pony spans.

[pumpkineater2]

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.67264,-111.152925&spn=0.004174,0.008256&t=h&z=18&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=33.672702,-111.152831&panoid=poogwHFLPa45vEYoU9Bojg&cbp=12,280.35,,0,-0.29

[Alps]

One you wouldn't expect near office parks in suburban New Jersey: http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/nj/smith_rd
http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/nj/nj_10 - About halfway down, old Mt. Pleasant Ave. stone arch
http://goo.gl/maps/rU8ni - Really need a retake of this

[bulldog1979]

This one:

That's a Pennsylvania through truss over the Dead River as photographed in 1922. It was purchased by the State of Michigan and moved to its current location in north central Marquette County from its former site over the Allegheny River north of Pittsburgh. The bridge is still there, although it has been closed to automobile traffic for a few years now. It is also one of the tour stops on the second day of the UP National Road Meet next year.

And this one:

That's Trunk Line Bridge No. 1, aka the Peshekee River Bridge. It was the first bridge built by the State Highway Department in 1914. It carried M-15, and later US 41/M-28, over the Peshekee River near Michigamme in western Marquette County. It's a stop on the first day of the aforementioned meet next September.

There are three other cool bridges on the meet tour for the first day, but I'll keep those under wraps for now to entice people to come.  :

[SteveG1988]

Longest Cantilever bridge in the united states, 4th longest in the world

And the Tacony Palmyra Bridge, a combination Arch, Movable and Pony Truss.

[hm insulators]

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=33.67264,-111.152925&spn=0.004174,0.008256&t=h&z=18&vpsrc=6&layer=c&cbll=33.672702,-111.152831&panoid=poogwHFLPa45vEYoU9Bojg&cbp=12,280.35,,0,-0.29

Welcome to aaroads from another Phoenix resident!

[adventurernumber1]

The bridge on TN SR 8 crossing the Tennessee River in Chattanooga is also pretty neat!

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0591269,-85.3091921,3a,75y,219.9h,88.92t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s_LvFUkTkgZEmzdD1Igwjuw!2e0

[roadman65]

While in the Philadelphia area, I came across this one on US 30 in Camden.  It looks like NJDOT kept the original span of the Federal Street overpass when it needed to be widened to accommodate the two c/d roadways.  In the middle you still see the old style construction while the approaches are 1070's era modern.


https://www.google.com/maps/place/Camden,+NJ/@39.9437111,-75.1067749,3a,75y,323.44h,79.68t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s31etEQdEtthPaGOkxQS0BA!2e0!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c6c9192e360043:0xdfe36b76a1938686

[slorydn1]

Way in the background behind these pictures of my wife's car you can kind of see the Neuse River Bridge in the background. When it was completed in 1999 it was the largest single highway contract in the state at that time. The New Bern Sun Journal did a piece on it back in the fall: http://www.newbernsj.com/news/local/neuse-river-bridge-a-once-in-a-lifetime-project-1.379359


The article has neat aerial shot of it just before it was completed.

[ekt8750]

Longest Cantilever bridge in the united states, 4th longest in the world

And the Tacony Palmyra Bridge, a combination Arch, Movable and Pony Truss.

I love going over both of those bridges. I'm surprised you didn't mention the Tacony's sister bridge, the Burlington-Bristol which is quite a long lift drawbridge over the Delaware:

[SteveG1988]

Longest Cantilever bridge in the united states, 4th longest in the world

And the Tacony Palmyra Bridge, a combination Arch, Movable and Pony Truss.

I love going over both of those bridges. I'm surprised you didn't mention the Tacony's sister bridge, the Burlington-Bristol which is quite a long lift drawbridge over the Delaware:

I was going to mention it, but I was waiting to take my own photo.

[US71]

Van Buren, AR

[jeffandnicole]

I never cared for the Commodore Barry Bridge.  Compared to the other Delaware crossings, it's narrow, the paint is badly faded/peeling, and is just a very basic looking bridge.  It hasn't aged well.

[nexus73]

McCullough Bridge crossing Coos Bay north of North Bend OR is the iconic Oregon Coast bridge.  Completed in 1936, it is a rare bridge due to it being named after the man who designed it and several others along US 101 in Oregon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conde_McCullough_Memorial_Bridge

http://bridgehunter.com/or/coos/mccullough/

Rick

[Bruce]

Floating bridges are amusing to say the least.


I-90 floating bridges by SounderBruce, on Flickr

[nexus73]

Floating bridges are amusing to say the least.


I-90 floating bridges by SounderBruce, on Flickr

They get even more amusing when they sink...LOL!  Since you are on this site I'll guess you know the story of what sent a section of I-90 bridge to the bottom of Lake Washington. My joke was that the culprit was an Iraqi sub!

Rick

[Bruce]

Floating bridges are amusing to say the least.


I-90 floating bridges by SounderBruce, on Flickr

They get even more amusing when they sink...LOL!  Since you are on this site I'll guess you know the story of what sent a section of I-90 bridge to the bottom of Lake Washington. My joke was that the culprit was an Iraqi sub!

Rick

Washington just has plain bad luck with bridges. Galloping Gertie collapsing spectacularly in 1940, the West Seattle Bridge getting rammed by a ship in 1977, Hood Canal floating bridge in 1979, the I-90 Bridge in 1990, the Skagit River Bridge in 2013, the viaduct and its replacement tunnel...

It might be one of the reasons we don't want to build a bridge across the Puget Sound, since the risk there is much higher. The ferries do just fine.

[SignGeek101]

How about this one? (Large image)



Not my pic. The large structure contains a restaurant and boutique, but isn't actually connected to the bridge behind it.

http://goo.gl/maps/zNP6b

[iowegian3]

https://www.google.com/search?q=jefferson+street+viaduct+ottumwa+iowa&biw=1242&bih=606&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=fLkyVbqpGYPfggTpq4HACQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAw

I'm partial to this bridge from my hometown in Iowa, better described here...
http://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=iowa/ottumwa/

And then there's the oldest and probably most famous "bridge to nowhere:"
http://www.royalgorgebridge.com/?gclid=CP664PHVgMUCFRAaaQodHlcA-A
It's back open again after the Royal Gorge fire of 2013 burnt nearly everything there except the bridge itself.  A few wooden planks were scorched and had to be replace, but otherwise the bridge was OK.  It's a bridge that's really more of an observation deck.  The good folks here in Canon City invite you to visit, as it owns the bridge and thousands of acres around it.