1930,1949+2011 Manette Bridges over Dyes Inlet in Bremerton, WA

1930: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges)

(Satellite)

 

"Built 1930; rehabilitated 1949; demolished 2011" The main span is a Pennsylvania through truss. [ArchivedBridgeHunter]

Western Washington History - Now in Color posted
1988 Manette Bridge Bremerton

Joshua Redd: The sidewalk had holes.......

 

HistoryLink, WSDOT

 

Since it is built with simple trusses, they had to use a lot of falsework to build the spans. Although I don't know why they didn't remove the falsework under the approach spans since they are done.

 

2010 photo by K. A. Erickson via ArchivedBridgeHunter

Street View, Sep 2008

The 2011 bridge that replaced the 1930 bridge looks like a concrete-girder bridge.

kitsapsun, LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUNf2011
The new bridge opened in 2011.

reddit
"Nine years ago today [Nov 10, 2020], the new Manette Bridge opened, replacing the old green steel truss (b. 1930)."

Street View, Aug 2017

yelp, first of 22 photos

ktheadways

1990 36mw Charles E. Monty Dam on Androscoggin River at Lewiston, ME and Dec 2023 Flood

(Satellite)

"The powerhouse is located at the east end of the falls and contains two vertical Kaplan

turbine/generators with a combined FERC authorized rating of 36.354 MW." [Relicensing Study, p101]  

Street View, Dec 2024

Relicensing Study, p209
When opened in 1990, the number of "wet days" has been reduced from 40% to 12%.

Dry:

a z, Aug 2016

Wet:

David Bergeron, Apr 2017

Really wet:

david snyder, Dec 2023

David turned a little to his right.

david snyder, Dec 2023

Also in Dec 2023, Bells Farming made a video of them checking out the impact of the Dec 2023 flood on their fields. Most of them were under water, but since they grow potatoes and sweet corn, none of their fields had crops. And some of the area roads were also under water. Below was the scene in her video that taught me about this hydropower plant.

19:55 video @ 11:50

As she walked upstream she got a closer view of the falls.

@ 12:11

This scene shows how full the river was.

@ 12:36

She turned a little to her left. This shows the lookout from which some of the above photos were taken.

@ 12:41

And from that lookout we have this view.

@ 12:53

And turning a little to her left or upstream at that lookout.

@ 12:58

There is another dam just upstream of the railroad bridge.

Kat- Deathbycombat, May 2024

1805+1909,1985 US-4 Waterford (Union) Bridge over Hudson River at Troy, NY

(Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2023

Postcard via Historic Bridges
"This is a rare surviving example of a urban pin-connected truss bridge over a major river....This bridge sits at the site of the first bridge over the Hudson River."
The 743' (227m) long bridge has a main span of 200' (61m).

Waterford is where the Erie Canal joins the Hudson River.

Photo taken by Jag9889 in 2009 via BridgeHunter

It makes sense that the first bridge was a covered bridge.

Postcard via BridgeHunter

Photo taken by Richard Doody 1990 via BridgeHunter

1 of 4 photos posted by East Coast Roads

New page for US 4 in New York.

https://www.eastcoastroads.com/states/ny/state/us4

East Coast Roads shared

1977 John T. Myers/Uniontown Locks and Dam on Ohio River near Mt. Vernon, IN

(Satellite, it had been called Uniontown Dam)

Street View, May 2012

USACE
This dam replaced dams #48 and #49.
"Mr. Myers retired from the 104th Congress as Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee’s Energy and Water Development Subcommittee. Thanks in great part to his visionary leadership, this nation continued its wise investment in the infrastructure necessary to support inland navigation during his tenure. The Water Resources Development Act of 2000 authorized the John T. Myers Locks Improvement Project. This work will extend the 600‑foot x 110‑foot auxiliary lock chamber to a 1200‑foot lock. This will give the project twin 1200‑foot locks for efficient movement of projected increases in tow traffic, and will enable the facility to manage traffic during main lock closures without significant delays to navigation."
The dam is 3,504' (1068m) long with ten 110' (33.5m) x 32' (10m) gates.

noaa

This satellite image caught both locks being used at the same time.

Satellite

2025 TVA Flood: See Pickwick Lock_2025 for information about the weather event.

We Work the Waterways posted

Amherst Madison's M/V AMHERST looking down at John T. Meyers Lock & Dam as the sun sets. 

As Captain Tim Brown said "Only 4 feet of wall showing." She's riding high today [Feb 23, 2025]!

noaa

Back to general dam information

We Work the Waterways posted

When a heavy lift is required for a job on the Ohio River, River Salvage Company and her hands on owner Jimmy Zubik is usually called to get it done. 

Here we see the 250 ton Monallo II removing the lock gates from Elizabeth Lock on the Monongahela River. This lock and dam will be demolished and removed in order to lengthen the pool. 

River Salvage is one of our many important sponsors and we thank them for this photo and information.  

Photo courtesy of JB Henkemeyer.

Fort Loudoun Lock shared

Another great post from the folks at We Work the Waterways Fyi...Each of our lock miter gates on the downstream end of each lock on the Tennessee River are just too tall & too heavy to lift in this particular manner. Each set of locks & dams on each of our river systems comes with its own set of unique engineering challenges. 🙂 

Dalton Call commented on the above post
The Shreve via USACE Heavy Fleet picking 505,000lbs at JT Myers L/D.

Loch Mary Dam on Clear Creek at Earlington, KY

(Satellite)

2025 TVA Flood: See Pickwick Lock_2025 for information about the weather event.

Jim Pearson Photography posted

Our area has got a lot of rain this winter and February 17th, 2022, was one of those days when one of the winter storms dropped a lot of rain on the region over a 24-hour period. Here I caught an empty grain train, CSX G438, as it made its way past a flooded area around the house track at Earlington, Kentucky as it heads north on the Henderson Subdivision.

Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Sigma 150-600 @ 290mm, f/5.6, 1/160, ISO 450.

https://fineartamerica.com/.../csx-g438-northbound...

Dennis DeBruler: Does this pint, https://maps.app.goo.gl/YVGbTNUsuRP7WqtE8, mark the turnout in the photo?

This is the western part of the earthen dam that is upstream of where the above flooding occured.

Street View, Mar 2021

This is the eastern part of the earthen dam.

Street View, Oct 2023

This CSX route had been an L&N route.

1954/58 Earlington Quad @ 62,500

I wonder how high the water got above the spillway crest during this flood event.

lpm

1852 L&N/NC&StL Cumberland Mountain Tunnel near Cowan, TN

North Portal: (Satellite, a little east of the trail bridge.)

South Portal: (Satellite)

NC&StL = Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway 

"The Cowan Tunnel, or Cumberland Mountain Tunnel, is a railroad tunnel near Cowan, Tennessee. The tunnel was built by the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad Company and was completed in 1852 with the tracks laid in 1853 with a total length of 2,200 ft (670 m)." [dbpedia]

tnhistoryforkids specifies a completion date of May 1851. It also reminds us that back in the 1850s, tunnels were built by hand, not with steam. "One man would hold and turn a short length of steel bit, while two others struck it with eight-pound hammers."

Citation: "Cowan Tunnel," approximately 1940, Looking Back at Tennessee Photograph Collection, 1890-1981, 7684, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Tennessee Virtual Archive, https://teva.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15138coll50/id/419, accessed 2025-02-23.

Dale Proctor posted
Cumberland Mountain tunnel, built by the NC&StL Railroad in 1852 to connect Nashville and Chattanooga. That’s the arch bridge carrying the Tracy City branch in front of it. Near Cowan Tenn., 6/20/86

I don't know if the NC&StL used east/west or north/south directions in their timetable, so I used geographic directions to label the satellite locations. I know of the NC&StL as the railroad that teamed up with the CB&Q to build a bridge across the Ohio River. I got a map to learn more about this railroad in this area of Tennessee.

1903 Map from Wikipedia via Dennis DeBruler

Google Maps labels the south portal of this tunnel as "Cowan Tunnel." The label "Cumberland Mountain Tunnel" takes you to a "cultural landmark" near the Cowan Railroad Museum (former NC&StL depot). So the actual length is 2,228' (679m).

Street View, Apr 2014

In most of the satellite images I looked at, the tracks south of the tunnel were hidden by the shadow of the trees. But this one shows us at least some of the track.

Global Earth, Sep 2014

1890,1985 Waterville Bridge over Swatara Creek on the Appalachian Trail

Current Location: (Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2021

Bob Dover posted

The Waterville Bridge is an example of a lenticular truss bridge constructed by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut. The Waterville Bridge dates from 1890, and has all of the detailed decoration, including an ornamental frieze and date plaque over the portal, that is associated with the Berlin Iron Bridge Company bridges. While most rehabilitated bridges are reconstructed in place or moved, at most, a few miles, you will no longer find the Waterville Bridge anywhere near Waterville. This bridge was moved more than 100 miles in 1985 to carry the Appalachian Trail across Swatara Creek in Swatara State Park, east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

There is a sub-chapter on the lenticular truss bridges of the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in Chapter 2 of my book, Bridgespotting: A Guide to Bridges that Connect People, Places, and Times.

Sergey Reznichenko, Nov 2021

Pin connecting a lenticular truss is interesting.

David Stanton, May 2021