$169m North Bypass Channel and V-Pier Bridges in Fort Worth, TX

(Satellite, they are digging a channel just east of the railroad to help keep flood water off the peninsula.)

The Walsh Group posted

Walsh Construction is set to build the $169 million North Bypass Channel in Fort Worth, Texas.

The 3,900-foot [1.2km] channel will help divert floodwaters around downtown Fort Worth, strengthening flood protection and long-term resilience for the surrounding community.

But before they dig the channel, they are building the three bridges that will be needed to access the peninsula. It is cheaper to build the bridges on dry land. This is the Main Street Bridge.

Street View, Aug 2025

It looks like it is a poured concrete bridge.

Street View, Mar 2021

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"The North Bypass Channel Feature will restore flood protection levels on the Trinity River near downtown Fort Worth and its upstream and downstream river segments. Restoring the flood protection level is needed due to development within the Trinity River watershed (drainage area) since the original levees and floodway were constructed in the 1950s and 1960s."

The northern part of the above diagram does not look correct. I'd expect a thick dark-blue line east of Calhoun Street that dumps directly into the river rather than a thin line that goes North along the river. This following diagram confirms that the above diagram is not correct. It also shows that $169m is a fraction of the plan's cost.

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The above map shows that Main Street is one of three bridges that will be needed.

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"The signature V-Pier bridges that will span the future bypass channel were designed by the City of Fort Worth and were built and managed by TxDOT. The bridges will allow traffic to enter Panther Island from the north and west. The bridges are located at White Settlement Road, Henderson Street and N. Main Street. They have been artfully designed with the pedestrian experience and mass transportation in mind."
[I wonder what the cost penalty is for poured-concrete construction compared to the usual precast-girders-on-pile-piers construction. The V-piers are prettier.]

Here is another diagram of the project. It includes the Samuels Avenue Dam, but has the mistake of not including the pump station.

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"A stormwater pump station will be constructed on the northeast side of the interior area near the TRWD gate The station will be designed and built by USACE and maintained and operated by TRWD. During major flood events, the isolation gates will be closed and excess water will be moved through the pump station. The station will house four pumps, with one spare pump."
[Why does the photo show seven pumps instead of the claimed five pumps?]

It took them over a decade to build the Henderson Street Bridge.

Street View, Sep 2015

Street View, Dec 2016

Street View, Apr 2019

Street View, Mar 2021

Note the White Settlement Road/Westside Drive Bridge in the background.

Street View, Jan 2025

1924 US-66 Walnut Canyon Bridge and Former Texaco Station at Winona, AZ

Bridge: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Gas Station: (Satellite, the building is now the food mart for a Shell station.)

US-66 Overview

Street View, Jan 2026

Street View, Jun 2022

2009 photo my James McCray via BridgeHunter
The span length is 100' (30.5m).

Route 66 Road Relics posted four photos with the comment:

Don't forget Winona on Route 66.

The Walnut Canyon Bridge built in 1924.

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Route 66 Postcards posted three photos with the comment:

It is time we featured Winona, Arizona, along Route 66, with its beautiful view of the San Francisco Peaks.  Here is a "then, later, & now" of the Winona Trading Post and Texaco service station along old Route 66 in Winona, with two postcards showing its changes over time and a Google 'now' image. Winona was never really a town, but it gained a lot of notoriety for rhyming with Arizona in the famous song, "Route 66," originally sung by Nat King Cole, with words & lyrics by Bobby Troup.  That verse:

      Now you go through Saint Looey

      Joplin, Missouri,

      And Oklahoma City is mighty pretty.

      You see Amarillo,

      Gallup, New Mexico,

      Flagstaff, Arizona.

      Don't forget Winona,

      Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino

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1895,1904,1980,2005 Washington Street Bridge over Jersey City Reservoir and 1904 Dam at Boonton, NJ

Bridge: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Dam: (Satellite)

Metrotrails posted and HistoricBridges

Historic early 1900s postcard image the old Washington Street bridge in Boonton, New Jersey, a rare example of a pin-connected Pratt deck truss bridge built in 1895 by the Canton Bridge Company of Ohio. 

The northern span of the bridge was replaced in 1988 with two stringer spans.

This bridge was closed to all but pedestrian traffic in 2005 when the new route 202 Washington Street Bridge opened to traffic.

Steven Monarque: We used to jump off that bridge all the time back in High School.

cdk007, Aug 2024

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"This is a rare example of a highway pin-connected truss that is mostly a deck truss, but with trusses that are outside of the deck edges rather than under the deck, and are partially positioned above the roadway elevation, although most of the trusses  remain below the elevation of the roadway. Sway bracing is positioned as a deck truss. The trusses are deep, and have an unusual horizontal member running through the middle of the trusses likely for additional stability."

Compare this photo to the one above where the boys are jumping off the bridge. It shows some of the revisions that were done to strengthen the bridge. In the foreground, a rolled beam has been added to the truss. And in the lower-right corner, bolts have been added. The rivets confuse me. They are too new for 1895 and too old for 1980. There must have been additional rehabilitations. (I found below a 1904 rehabilittion.)

cdk007, Aug 2024

 Illsoo Kim, Sep 2017

I found that it was also rehabilitated in 1904. This may have been when the rivets were added.

David Koblentz, Jun 2024

Illsoo Kim, Sep 2017

We can see at least part of the masonry dam.

Street View, Apr 2026

Illsoo Kim, Sep 2017

The spillway is built on an angle, probably to reduce its slope and the velocity of the water to reduce erosion.

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Abandoned Bridge, Guard Gate #3 and Rocky Rift Diversion Dam for Erie Canal near Mindenville, NY

Bridge: (no Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Gate: (Satellite)

Dam: (Satellite)

Erie Canal Overview

Ulf Jonsson posted eight photos with the comment: "By far the strangest bridge on the canals.  Between E-16 and E-17.   I posted about it before but i got some more pictures today.  I need to try to find time to stop here when driving up to Syracuse at some point."

Mike Karsten: The cantilevered back span supports the one side of the truss. It appears that the canal was widened and they built a new pier further back with the cantilevered span and re-used the old truss.

Paul Taylor: Key Details About the Bridge

• Location: Spans the canal and former rail alignments near Mindenville/St. Johnsville in Montgomery County.

• Design & Modification: Local historians and engineers note it is a distinctive metal truss structure featuring a cantilevered back span. Commenters and local archives suggest the bridge was altered and re-anchored on a new pier further back when the canal was widened into the modern Barge Canal system, reusing the older metal truss framework.

• Context: It previously connected local roadway paths across the waterway and the old West Shore Railroad tracks (now part of the Empire State Trail corridor).

• Current Status: The crossing has been closed to vehicle and public traffic for several years.

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This diagram would be before the canal was enlarged.

Ulf Jonsson commented on his post
Ted Olsen posted this.. apparently there were tracks where the road is now on the south side. That explain some of it. The ramp over the tracks must have been steel too.

Tim Rice: Ulf Jonsson yes, with heavy wooden planks for road deck.

Jeff Antalek posted

To me old bridges just hold so much energy. 

The memories of the past. 

A different way of life, and the paths of many. 

-Like this one that once fully spanned the Canal from Minden to the St Johnsville area. 

This spot, used for a launch by the Amish sometimes is also on a spot where unfortunately, 

 people like to dump garbage. 

I walk it sometimes with a rifle, and shoot target in the woods near there. 

Every time I go in, I carry a bag for other people's refuse. 

If we abuse public land we lose the right to access. 

So even if we just pick up a little every time, 

maybe someday, we can still bring our grandkids to these beautiful little spots.

Michael Riley: When you see the two piers on these bridges, you know they are original. Many of them were infilled into one monolith abutment to add strength. These old bridges are so neat to see and if they haven't been subject to salt, they are in quite nice shape. It would be nice to save a few of these as pedestrian bridges. Here are a few posts I wrote about the bridges of Cayuga County. https://canalsplash.blogspot.com/search/label/bridge

Cabryn Lynn commented on Jeff's post
Another view of this bridge in Mindenville, 2017.

Ted Olsen commented on Jeff's post
The next Schillner map to the west from the one depicting the bridge. The waterway from the top of the page is East Canada Creek. The smaller, narrow, linear water channel sandwiched, is the Enlarged era Mindenville feeder. It, along with the Enlarged Canal, got overdug and became the current Barge Canal waterway.

Ted Olsen commented on Jeff's post
Schillner map, which depicts a smaller bridge in this location when this water course was still just the Enlarged Canal.

Indian Castle Guard Gate #3

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"The stream entering the canal on the south side is Nowadaga Creek, also known as Castle Creek. You can launch on the gravel beach landing at the end of Canal Lock Road."

1927 Rocky Rift Movable Dam

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I can't figure out exactly how the gates work. The above photo shows them down for a low flow and the photos below show them up for a high flow.

Cori Wilson posted three images with the comment: "The Rocky Rift Moveable Dam, part of the New York State Erie-Barge Canal, is located at the end of Depot Road, Manheim Center, Herkimer County, New York (coordinates. It was built in 1927 to replace an earlier fixed crest dam, using a movable three-span truss bridge design to maintain Mohawk River water levels for navigation. The dam was rehabilitated in 1982 to ensure continued functionality.
A significant event associated with the dam occurred on April 11, 1944, when Reuben Klock, a 64-year-old retired farmer and the dam's caretaker, drowned while attempting to lower the dam gates. Reports suggest he may have fallen into the canal while trying to loosen stuck gates with a hammer, standing on a narrow walkway. His body was recovered on May 6, 1944, one and a half miles east of Lock 16. Eighty one years ago today..."

John J Lemche Jr.: 5 mile dam is what us locals call it

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Evidently, the Barge Canal was closed in May 2025 between locks E16 and E17 to make emergency repairs on the embankment for this dam. [canals]

NYS Canal Corporation posted
[This was the source of the above "canals" link.

All Three

The "!" is the dam, the weird dot is the guard gate and the bridge is near the lower-right corner.

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