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| 2008 photo by Jim Allen via BridgeHunter |
Impromptu stop at Frankenmuth, MI the other night! A stop at the the Holz-Brücke Wooden Bridge was a must!! I’ve included captures from all sides!!***This bridge was built in 1979.— in Frankenmuth, MI.
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| HAER WIS,38-WAG,1--1 1. VIEW OF NORTHWEST ELEVATION - Wisconsin-Michigan Railroad Bridge, Spanning Menominee River, on County Trunk Highway "JJ", Wagner, Marinette County, WI |
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| Ghost Rails and Forgotten Highways posted Two Counties Bought the Koss Bridge for $1,250 and Drove Across It for 53 Years The Wisconsin & Michigan ran its last train on June 30, 1938. Within weeks, Marinette County on the Wisconsin bank and Menominee County on the Michigan bank had split the cost of the railroad's Menominee River crossing - $625 apiece - and opened it to automobiles. The bridge was already a replacement when they bought it. F. S. Brown & Company of Chicago finished a crossing at this spot in March 1894, and a spring logjam undermined its foundation the following month; the structure in this photograph went up in its place by early November of the same year. Two pin-connected Pratt through trusses, one 162 feet and one 221 feet, built so the pine coming out of the interior would not have to be rafted down the river. HAER's surveyors noted the longer span may be among the longest Pratt through trusses in Wisconsin and Michigan. The town at the north end, Koss, was named for the railroad's auditor and held close to 2,000 people before fire took it in 1900. The railroad itself went into receivership in 1912 and spent its final decades as roughly 62 miles of connecting link between bigger carriers, hauling lumber and iron ore between Bagley Junction and Iron Mountain. What the counties got for their money was a single-lane crossing tying County Trunk JJ on the Wisconsin side to Shakey Lakes Road on the Michigan side - a bridge built for logging trains, carrying farm trucks and mail cars across a state line. It held that job until 1991, when a new bridge replaced it and the trusses came down. The Historic American Engineering Record photographed it in that second life, which is the only reason you can still look at it. Fifty-three years of road service out of a railroad that couldn't survive its own timber running out is a better return than most infrastructure ever gets. Has anyone here crossed the old single-lane bridge at Koss before the 1991 replacement went in, or know of another railroad bridge in your county that ended up carrying cars? 5. VIEW OF WEST SIDE OF LONG TRUSS |
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| HAER WIS,38-WAG,1--9 9. VIEW OF NORTH END OF LONG TRUSS |
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| Minor Images, Nov 2021 |
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| M&E189-55.zip via ohiodnr |
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| 1 Miami and Erie Canal Lock No. 17 Marker |
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| Gregg A. Montgomery commented on a post I own M&E lock 19 south. 700 yards south of Endicott and Powell. Circa 1833 Mark Rogers: Gregg A. Montgomery I'm trying to find the location of lock 19 on a satellite map. I found a survey map of the canal from 1898 which shows the location of locks 17, 18, and 19. However, I can't decipher the scale. If I can see how far 18 and 19 are from one another, I should be able to find the original location of 17. As you know, 17 was removed and rebuilt in Carillon Park. I used to think that 17 was where the Taylorsville dam is, but I'm beginning to think it may have been a little south of there. Would it be possible for you to provide the GPS coordinate for lock 19, so I can find it's location on the map? Next, I'm going to find lock 11, somewhere north of Troy. Gregg A. Montgomery: Mark Rogers lock 17 S. was dug out in 1950 and is removed to a Carillon Park it’s gone 18 south is in the city of Huber Heights at the park at Endicott in Fishberg 19 S. is approximately 3/4 of a mile south of 18 in an underdeveloped area, I cannot do coordinates and I want to keep it very private because the ATVs and 4 wheeler guys I don’t want in there |
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| Gregg A. Montgomery commented on his comment Not restored. |
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| Patricia Hagaman, Nov 2020 |
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| USACE, Pittsburgh District posted It's the Thursday before a holiday weekend, so here's some fun trivia about Mahoning Creek Lake for everyone: - The dam is 162 feet tall and 926 feet long. It contains 342,210 cubic yards of concrete. - It’s a concrete gravity dam, which is engineering shorthand for “being extremely heavy is on purpose.” - The lake covers about 280 acres at normal summer pool. At full pool, it's 2,370 acres. - Mahoning can store runoff equivalent to 4.09 inches of precipitation across its 340-square-mile drainage area. - The dam was completed in 1941. - Since completion, Mahoning Creek Dam has prevented an estimated more than $812 million in flood damages as of 2025 - on a $6 million construction budget. - When it's not mitigating flood risk, the lake has other secondary benefits: boating, camping, hiking, and fishing for species including walleye, muskie, northern pike, channel catfish, crappie and bass. |
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| 12:29 video @ 1:20 Henry Ford's Hidden Power Plant "Henry Ford virtually invented the GIANT factory, but at the same time, he evangelized tiny, water-powered micro-factories, which he called his Village Industries, and some of them still exist! "Join me at Sharon Mills, Henry Ford's 13th Village Industries site, which started out as an 1834 Muley sawmill, then a grist mill, before turning into a water-powered auto parts factory in 1928 with the installation of a Francis water turbine. Today, it's home to the last, working, hydroelectric power plant for these Village Industry sites." This village factory made cigar lighters and electrical switches. |
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| Boat View, Sep 2014 |
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| Metrotrails added Theodore Roosevelt Bridge completed in 1964, over the Potomac River from the Rock Creek Trail, Washington DC. Metrotrails shared |
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| HistoricBridges "This large bridge is noted for its arched, riveted girders which feature a pin and hanger cantilever design." |
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