2000: (Bridge Hunter; Satellite, this was an extension of I-72 across the river)
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| Missouri State Archives via Bridge Hunter, License: Public domain: Released by author June 3, 1952 |
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| Alish Rahman posted The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge at Hannibal, Mo., viewing east toward Illinois, following World War Two. The bridge carried U.S. Highway 36 over the Mississippi River. Photograph by Gerald R. Massie, official photographer for the State of Missouri. Digital image from the State Historical Society of Missouri. Ellen Taylor: There was a stoplight at the end of the bridge in Hannibal. Traffic would back up on the bridge and it would sway a little. It was replaced in the summer of 2000 and this one was torn down a year or two later. Robert Barnes: Ellen Taylor also semis would fly down there with loads of swinging beef and turn over! |
I think the 2000 bridge is interesting because they used a through truss span over the navigation channel. Were tied-arch spans still in development a couple of decades ago?
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| Missouri State Archives via Bridge Hunter, License: Public domain: Released by author June 3, 1952 |
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| James Zimba posted MARK TWAIN BRIDGE AT HANNIBAL, MISSOURI, CIRCA 1950s The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge at Hannibal, Mo., viewing east toward Illinois, following World War Two. The bridge carried U.S. Highway 36 over the Mississippi River. Photograph by Gerald R. Massie, official photographer for the State of Missouri. Digital image from the State Historical Society of Missouri. |
I include this one because the smokestacks caught my eye and the fact that they used a through truss span over land.
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| Missouri State Archives via Bridge Hunter |
This shows that the truss over land is spanning a lot of railroad tracks.
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| Missouri State Archives via Bridge Hunter 04-16-1951 Hannibal during flood |
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| Forgotten Railways, Roads, and Places posted
The Mark Twain Memorial Bridge spanned the Mississippi River, connecting Hannibal, MO with the State of Illinois at Aladdin. The bridge was a Public Works Administration project, opening in 1936, coincidentally as part of US-36.
Before the bridge was built, automobiles could cross the Mississippi River at the nearby Wabash Bridge, which was built, and remains, as a railroad bridge. Originally opening as a toll bridge, the tolls were removed in 1940
In 2000, the bridge was demolished and replaced with a new bridge of the same name, carrying the newly-extended I-72 into Missouri, as well as US-36. A portion of the old Mark Twain Memorial Bridge remains is preserved at Cardiff Hill Overlook Park in Hannibal.
Image: Missouri State Archives
History: https://livingnewdeal.org/…/mark-twain-memorial-bridge-han…/ |
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| Missouri's Historic Highways posted September 16, 2000 – The new Mark Twain Memorial Bridge over the Mississippi at Hannibal was opened. The bridge carries Interstate 72 and US 36. It replaced the through truss span that opened in 1936. The inspection of the new bridge was delayed from April to August 2000 when a pair of endangered Peregrine Falcons was discovered nesting beneath the bridge. |
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| David Webster posted Tim Chism: Hannibal [This road bridge is in the background. The foreground bridge is the NS/Wabash Bridge.] |
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