US-6 (I-195) Bridges over Providence River in Providence, RI

Old: (Satellite, the piers were repurposed for a pedestrian bridge.)

New: (Satellite)

US-6 Overview

Normally, I would not use a 2008 Street View because of their quality, but this is the only view available since the bridge was soon torn down. I included the arch of the replacement I-195 bridge on the right side. I'm guessing that this old bridge was a steel-girder bridge.

Street View, Oct 2008

They left the piers.

Street View, Sep 2012

The Michael S. Van Lessten Memorial Pedestrain Bridge was built on the old piers.

Justin Case, Aug 2019

I-195+new US-6

Street View, Aug 2025

Street View, Aug 2024

Greenmark Geography posted

Providence took down a freeway bridge and kept its piers for something better.

Until 2009, I-195 crossed the Providence River right at the south edge of downtown, on a stretch of highway that was about 45 years old. The 2008 view on top shows the bridge full of traffic.

Rhode Island's $610 million Iway project moved the interstate south, onto a new eight-lane bridge. The last piece of the new highway opened in late 2009, and the old one came down over the next few years, freeing about 20 acres of downtown land.

The highway bridge went too, but its piers stayed in the river. In August 2019, a $21.9 million pedestrian bridge opened on top of them, with new parks at both ends. Since 2020 it has carried the name of civil rights advocate Michael S. Van Leesten.

Have you walked across it yet?

This is how US-6 used the old bridge. I'll bet US-6 used to use Angell and Waterman Streets to get through town.

1996/2000 Providence Quad @ 24,000

This map blend shows how US-6 was moved further downstream on the river.

This is a blend of the 1996 map with a current map.

1874+1932 Trail/Katy and US-40 Bridges over Missouri River at Boonville, MO

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

US-40: (Satellite)

US-40 Overview

This view is looking south from the US-40 Bridge.

Street View, Jul 2025

Dmitry Choukline, Sep 2026

Dmitry Choukline, Sep 2026

Dmitry Choukline, Sep 2026

The depot a few blocks south of this bridge is a trailhead for the Katy Trail.

"The first Katy bridge in 1874 was the fifth bridge across the Missouri. The current bridge, a 1932 replacement, was the longest lift-span in the united states when constructed." [plaque]

The lift span is 408' (124m). [BridgeHunter]

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This must have been before dams were built on the Missouri River.

SaveTheKatyBridge

The US-40 bridge is a combination of concrete and steel girders. My guess is that they are unloading potash for fertilizer.

Street View, Jul 2025

Market Street Stub for Chicago's Lake Street "L"

Terminus Depot: (Satellite, the stub was removed when Waker Drive was built.)

David M Laz posted
DID YOU KNOW THAT? Once upon a time, there was an "L" stub that ran from the Lake Street "L" and ended in front of the Opera House on Market Street (now Wacker Drive).
Alan Follett: Yes; the original downtown terminal of the Lake Street ‘L’, before it was connected to the Loop. It was abandoned in 1948.
Leonard Carey Williams: Samuel Insull's station he owned the Opera House he owned the trains he would park his private car at the end of the line it was good while it lasted
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Nicholas J Vetrovec commented on David's post
It was the fist section of the L built in the Loop and was part of the Lake Street Elevated rail known as the Market Street stub 1893. It was supposed to be removed in 1897 when they opened the fist section of the Loop but wasn't removed until 1948 leaving way to extend the double decked Wacker Drive. https://www.chicago-l.org/stations/market_term.html 

We can see the junction of the stub with the line that now connects with the Loop. Also, on the right side of the photo, we can see the stub going south of Randolph Street.

Frank Piha posted
Chicago 1925. No Merchandise Mart yet. There is a train station where the Mart will be built. The Chicago Temple Building on the SE corner of Clark and Washington was the tallest building in Chicago from 1924 to 1930. The Franklin/Orleans bridge is raised. The Clark bridge pivots.
[The construction of Wacker Drive is in progress at Wolf Point, but they have yet to clear the buildings along South Water Street. However, this photo must be after Aug 31, 1925 because that is when the replacement produce terminal opened. So South Water Street is now vacant, and the buildings can be cleared for Wacker Drive.]

Comments on Frank's post

This map shows that the terminus depot was just north of Madison Street.

Terry Gregory commented on Frank's post

1938+1988+2027 Lafayette Street Bridges over East Channel Saginaw River in Bay City, MI

(Archived Bridge Hunter is returning 429's; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

It looks like the 1988 bridge used steel girders.

HistoricBridges
The 1938 bridge was a Scherzer Rolling lift type. In 1988, the superstructure was replaced.

The 1938 bridge had plenty of rivets. The 1988 bridge has none.

HistoricBridges

The $112m [mdot] 2027 replacement doesn't even use steel for the fixed spans.

Ray Rocha's Baycountylive 18:56 video @ 0:05

1 of many construction photos on oe324
This describes the new bridge as "rolling."

Oct 13, 2026:

WNEMTV5news posted two photos with the comment:

BRIDGE MILESTONE: 

First concrete beams set for Lafayette Bridge in Bay City

https://www.wnem.com/.../lafayette-bridge-project.../

Steve Pajak: Is this an ironworker crew setting these into place?

Marty Brawley: Steve Pajak Carpenters set those.

Gary Beckert: Steve Pajak Ain't a hope in hell of a iron worker touching concrete.

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They evidently set all six beams in one day. All of the underwater work is done. 

2:11 video @ 0:13
Lafayette Bridge project reaches major milestone as first concrete beams are set
The project began in Dec 2024, and they are on schedule to open in June 2027.
Each beam is 60 tons and about 125' (38m) long.
They do an "in-air transfer" with the two cranes to set the beams.

ConstructionEquipmentGuide, MDOT
The cost is up to $113.6m.

ConstructionEquipmentGuide, MDOT
"There were two American 9299 cranes that were used to assist with the project."

I went to Ray Roacha's Facebook page and found a video of a beam lift. The lift starts at 5:07 while he is focused on a hose they wound up earlier in the video. As expected, as the crane slews the beam toward the river, the truck backs up the trailer under the other end of the beam. At 14:05, both cranes are hooked up to the beam as part of the transfer. 14:46 the yellow crane has the beam because the red crane dropped its hook so that the riggers can remove it from that end of the beam. 16:15 the red crane is free of the beam and the hook is headed to the other end. 17:36 they are connected the red crane to the other end. 19:17 after he changed the battery, the riggers were removing the beam from the trailer. 20:31 both cranes are now moving the beam into position. 22:30 those are big piles of counterweights on the mobile (red) crane. 23:52 I don't see anybody signalling the yellow crane operator. Are they using radios? I have not been able to understand the chatter that is on the video. 26:02 I don't know what the drone operator was looking for, but he is back to the beam here. 26:31 now I see a handsignal. The last few inches always takes a long time. 27:34 is measuring how close the beam is to the abutment. 29:12 is the beam down while the drone was looking at houses? 29:25 yes, I see the rigging wiggling a little bit. 29:47 and the rigging is slack on the other end as well. 33:52 why didn't the haul the trailers away while the beam was being set so that the area is clear for the next beam? In fact, I expected the next beam to already be backed into position. 34:14 the answer is  that they need the red crane to put the back trailer on top of the front trailer so that one truck can haul both trailers. And we can clearly see that the mobile crane has 8 axles. (The biggest I've seen is 9.) Unfortunately, he decides to look at beam pads instead of the trailer lift. 38:05 finally, we are back to the trailer lift, but we don't stay there. 

41:56 video

1931,1989 Boston Cantilever Bridge over Youghiogheny River in Boston, PA

(Archived Bridge Hunter returned too many 429's, Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Street View, Jul 2019

HistoricBridges
This 1,182' (360.3m) long bridge has a main span of 420' (128m).
"This impressive bridge which is considered eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, is a striking and impressive cantilever bridge that is very unlike most cantilever bridges encountered. The bridge was designed to look highly attractive, and as such the sway bracing on this bridge is designed as unusual large arch shapes, and the top chord of the cantilever is carefully designed especially between the towers to have a very smooth curved appearance to the bridge. The curve is designed so that the top chord sweeps far lower that in most cantilever bridges, which is only possible because the bridge has sway bracing only in the vicinity of the towers, yet another unusual feature of this bridge. The bridge is a cantilever bridge, and two hinges at the bottom chord define a six panel suspended span at the center of the bridge, although visually this is almost impossible to see with a casual view. The bridge's diagonal and vertical members are all rolled beams, and the top chord is a built-up box beam with lattice on the bottom, which is the only place in which lattice occurs on the bridge. No v-lacing is present."

This shows the lattice on the bottom of the top chord described by HistoricBridges.

Street View, May 2025

This is a good view of the arched sway bridges that HistoricBridges mentioned.

Coreen Baumann (Th3G1rI), Apr 2019

Maddog4x4, Jan 2025

These are the six center panels or the suspended span. The triangular gusset plates on both sides would be the location of the hinges.

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2006 Captain Swift Covered Bridge over Big Bureau Creek near Princeton, IL

(Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

Also near Princeton is the oldest covered bridge in Illinois, 1863.   

Street View, Jul 2026

JJ Slayback Just Another Townie posted two photos with the comment:

Most folks build a new bridge to replace an old one. Up around Princeton, Illinois, they decided to do things a little differently. They went backward in time to move forward.

The Captain Swift Covered Bridge crosses Big Bureau Creek on Epperson Road, about a mile west of town. And while it looks like something that ought to have a horse and buggy coming out the other end, it wasn't built until 2006.

The old iron bridge that stood here dated back to 1915. After nearly a century of carrying traffic, its better days were behind it. Rather than replace it with another ordinary steel or concrete crossing, the folks in Bureau County decided to build something that might have looked right at home a century earlier.

They borrowed a page from the early 1800s, using a design based on Theodore Burr's old wooden bridge system. The result was a 128 foot [39m] span with enough room for two lanes of modern traffic. In fact, it's considered the only two lane covered bridge in Illinois.

They named it after Captain Samuel T. Swift, an early settler who came to Bureau County back in the 1830s. The outside was covered in Douglas fir, left unpainted so the Illinois weather could do what it does best.

I suppose some folks might wonder why anybody would build a covered bridge in the 21st century. After all, we spent the better part of a hundred years replacing them with something newer.

But standing there looking at that big wooden bridge, I couldn't help but admire the thought that went into building something new to look so old. I suppose there's something to be said for a county that decided the past was worth bringing back.

I know most people admire the old ones, but I figured there might be room for one that was built yesterday to look like it belonged a hundred years ago.

Nick Stabler: Princeton, IL has another, more historic, covered bridge, “The Red Covered Bridge”, across the same creek. The RCB is currently being rebuilt/restored after a semi tried to cross her in 2023.

JJ Slayback Just Another Townie: Rick Stabler yes, completely missed it when I was up there last. Won't make that mistake again.

JJ Slayback Just Another Townie shared

JJ Slayback Just Another Townie shared

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Lisa Ruble provided four photos as comments on the second share above.

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The bridge the Captain Swift replaced.

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The bridge the Captain Swift replaced.

2008 photo by Sean Flynn via BridgeHunter

2019 photo by Jack Schmidt via BridgeHunter

Closed Pedestrain Bridge over Cleveland & Cuyahoga/Erie Tracks and Lost Eire Roundhouse

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

Roundhouse: (Satellite, they either removed, or covered up, the foundation.)

From Track Road, south of bridge:

Street View, Sep 2022

From Track Road, north of bridge:

Street View, Jul 2026

From 50th Street:

Chris Huhnke, Oct 2021

Steve Liegl posted three photos with the comment: "Here's a closed pedestrian bridge in Cleveland over the old Erie RR tracks connecting the aptly named Track Rd (lower L [Photo 2]) with E 50th (lower R [Photo 3])."

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I got a topo map to confirm that half of the bridge is now over weeds because there used to be a railyard here. That is when I discovered that Erie also had a roundhouse here.

1953/55 Cleveland South Quad @ 24,000