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The bridge featured an unusual truss configuration that is a hybrid of the Parker and K-Truss configurations. The bridge was replaced by a new concrete and box girder span that opened in November 2014, slightly delayed from its target completion date of August 2013 by conditions encountered in the construction of the replacement bridge footings.
Bowstring Truss Bridge, also known as the Roaring Run Bowstring Truss Bridge and King Tubular Arch Truss Bridge, is a historic bowstring truss bridge located at the Ironto Rest Area near Ironto, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built by the King Bridge Company in 1878, and is a single-span, four-panel tubular arch pony truss. It measures 55 ...
Constructed in 1937-1938 by the Kansas City Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri. [2] [3] the bridge is designed as a rare example of a K-Parker through truss bridge with camelback pony spans. [2] [4] The bridge consists of eight riveted K-truss through spans with two camelback pony truss spans at each end. [3]
The two main bridge spans are K-trusses of welded steel construction. Each truss span measures 130 metres (430 ft) long and these were the longest welded truss spans in the world when built. The deck of the truss spans in concrete, cast in situ around the truss members. The truss spans were fabricated off site and floated into position on ...
Pages in category "King post truss bridges in the United States" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors Huey P. Long and Oscar K. Allen, it is known locally in the Baton Rouge Area as "the old bridge". [3] It was the only bridge across the Mississippi in Baton Rouge from its opening until April 1968, when the Horace Wilkinson Bridge ("the new bridge") carrying Interstate 10 opened.
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Amelia Park Bridge: 1914 2004-01-21 Antelope: Marion: Concrete Bridge Asylum Bridge: 1905 1990-01-04 Osawatomie
The Charles M. Braga Jr. Memorial Bridge, also known as the Braga Bridge, or simply, The Braga, is a through truss bridge that carries Interstate 195 over the Taunton River between the town of Somerset and the city of Fall River, near the mouth of the Quequechan River at the confluence with Mount Hope Bay.