1908+1959+2018 Park Road Bridges over Iowa River in Iowa City, IA

1908 Truss: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter)

1959 Girder: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter)

2018 Arch: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2024

Mickie Lynn posted four photos with the comment: "Bridge over the Iowa River near City Park.  The river continues to rise. 😢— in Iowa City, IA."

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The first bridge at this crossing.

Public Domain via BridgeHunter

Note the streetcar and the flooding.

Used for Educational Purposes via BridgeHunter_1908

Photo provided by Alan Light via BridgeHunter_1908

Iowa City Press Citizen Collection 1945-08-25 Flickr via ArchivedBridgeHunter_1908

Bridge Hunter normally doesn't do stringer bridges. I guess they did the 1959 bridge because of this flood photo. The girders are covered up so I'm guessing it had steel girders.

Erin Sweeney Flickr via ArchivedBridgeHunter_1959
Iowa City Flood (Friday 6/13)

I presume Erin is talking about the 2008 Flood. I remember hearing about this flood in the news. Cedar Rapids was devastated by those rainstorms.

USACE

Seldom is a bridge replaced by a better-looking bridge. But it was in this case.

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1838+1927+1972 Camp Nelson Bridges over Kentucky River near US-27 south of Lexington, KY

1838 Covered: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Satellite, just the abutment and portal.)

1927 Truss: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; B&T; Satellite)

1972 Girder: (Satellite)

Street View, Aug 2013

One can call this bridge the "Old" Old Camp Nelson Bridge. The Camp Nelson Covered Bridge is the first of three bridges crossing the Kentucky River on US 27 (See Old Camp Nelson Bridge information and pictures). The bridge was a 240' long double barreled covered bridge built in 1838. Union troops during the Civil War used this bridge and the bridge continued to remain in use until 1926 when a truck fell through its floorboards. A new bridge, the "Old Camp Nelson Bridge," was built the same year and this bridge was closed to traffic. Efforts were made to save this bridge, but proved futile, and in 1933 the bridge was demolished. All that remains of the Camp Nelson Covered Bridge are its stone approaches and a preserved facade on its northern approach. The bridge that replaced this bridge was also replaced by a new bridge in 1972. The "replacement" bridge currently sits abandoned next to the ruins of the Camp Nelson Covered Bridge. [ArchivedBridgeHunter_1838]

Credit: Camp Nelson Heritage Park via BridgeHunter_1838

1930 Photo from Kentucky Historical Society via BridgeHunter_1927

Public Domain via BridgeHunter_1838

Public Domain via BridgeHunter_1838

HistoricBridges
"This bridge is a rivet-connected Parker through truss. It appears to be unaltered and thus with good historic integrity."

Bridges & Tunnels posted four photos with the comment:

Once a strategic Civil War route, the Camp Nelson Bridge has seen three major iterations—1838, 1928, and 1974—each shaped by Kentucky’s evolving needs.

📸 More photos + history: https://bridgestunnels.com/location/camp-nelson-bridge-old-us-27/

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Terri Jasper commented on the above post
Taken in 2013, it's the memorial recreation of the facade on Jessamine County side.

Terri Jasper commented on the above post

James McCray photo via BridgeHunter_1927

BridgesTunnels

SamTerrysKentucky
"German immigrant Lewis Wernwag and a crew of 20 men spent 10 months building the 240-foot [73m] long bridge containing a pair of 12-foot wide lanes. The bridge was the longest cantilever bridge in the United States, in its day an engineering phenomenon. During the Civil War it was the only bridge across the Kentucky River in central Kentucky and the site of a skirmish between Union and Confederate forces on March 28, 1863."
[Multiple sources called it a cantilever bridge. But I don't see how it can be cantilevered since it is supported on its ends.]

2:53 video
Truck Falls Through Floor of the Camp Nelson Covered Bridge
This video explains that a truck fell through the deck because of a rotten floorboard.

Bridges B30 and B29 over Hennepin Canal near Atkinson, IL

B30: (Satellite)

B29: (Satellite)

Hennepin Canal Overview

I can't tell for sure from this photo, but I presume the truss is pin connected.

Hennepin Canal State Park posted
Don't you just love the concrete posts that are found along Hennepin Canal property? Today's Throwback Thursday picture is looking north across the canal and shows the concrete fence posts delineating the canal right-of-way and the approach to Bridge 30.

John Schlegle: This Throwback picture of Bridge 30 brings back many memories of all the volunteer organizations who worked so hard to acquire the Hennepin Canal from the Federal Government back in the 50's and 60's. It's part of a portfolio of photos, the IDNR had done to photograph all remaining structures on the Hennepin Canal prior to total decommissioning. The timeline was 1970, the same year the State of Illinois accepted ownership of the Hennepin Canal. 1970 was also the year that ended all accumulative efforts by volunteer organizations to acquire the Hennepin Canal including: The Better Fishing Association and Geneseo Izak Waltham League. Sadly, a short time after this photo was taken, Bridge 30 was removed and replaced with a culvert.

Dave Barton: Back in the days of the YCC we dug the holes by hand and put up many of these posts near Wyanet. Keeping with the original plan, every one had to the same exact height as the last and all had to be in a straight line.

No street view driver went over B30, but some have gone over B29. I assume both bridges looked the same then and now. The bridge and the approaches have been replaced by a culvert.

Street View, May 2023

The Rock Island ruined the canal so much that the towns grew up around the railroad instead of the canal.

Hennepin Canal State Park post via Dennis DeBruler

1893-1976 Geddes Road Bridge over Huron River in Ann Arbor, MI

(Satellite)

I've seen truss rods under wood boxcars, but this is the first time I have seen them under a bridge. The truss rods are the reason I added the "bridgeRare" label to these notes.

Bridges Now and Then posted
Geddes Bridge, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June, 1976. (Ann Arbor District Library)

Steve William Lindsey: Sad how this played out.

It is a model, but this is the best photo I found showing truss rods on a boxcar.

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This bridge connected Geddes Avenue with Geddes Road before the Huron Parkway was built.

1965/67 Ann Arbor East Quad @ 24,000

The Huron Parkway was built by 1973.

1973/74 Ann Arbor East Quad @ 24,000

The replacement bridge:

Street View, Sep 2022

The Ann Arbor Council approved $94,000 to replace the bridge. Of that, $4,815 was for destroying the existing bridge, and $4,345 was for contingencies. Even though the Parks Supt. George Owers recommended saving the old bridge for use as a pedestrian bridge, the council would not approve an additional $4,686 to dismantle the bridge instead of destroying it. [AAnews_May_1976]

Some citizens tried to raise the $4,686, but they obviously failed. [AAnews_Jun_1976]

Pleasant Valley and US-6 Bridges over Chagrin River near Cleveland, OH

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

US-6: (Satellite)

They are building a replacement for the US-6 bridge in 2025.

ODOT posted 0:49 video @ 0:00

I wonder what it cost to build the road into the canyon for that mobile crane.

Same video @ 0:15

The Pleasant Valley truss bridge is in the background of this screenshot.

Same video @ 0:35

Street View, Oct 2014

The Pleasant Valley Bridge is a pin-connected truss.

Street View, Nov 2020

It looks like the old US-6 bridge was a steel-girder bridge.

Street View, Nov 2020

HistoricBridges
"This bridge is an example of the Wrought Iron Bridge Company earlier design for a large span Whipple truss. It has been rehabilitated for continued vehicular use at the expense of historic integrity and alteration. Floorbeams, pins, and other elements are not original. Many rivets were replaced with high strength bolts. An interesting feature of the rehabilitation was that it was galvanized instead of painted. The silver/grey color created by galvanization is not offensive, and indeed its lighter color helps bring the truss bridge details out. The bridge is rare as an example of a Whipple truss, and also the last remaining highway truss in Lake County, Ohio."

HistoricBridges gives a rehabilitation date of 2009, but BridgeHunter says 2006.

"The wrought iron Whipple through truss (double intersection Pratt through truss) was constructed in 1881 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company. The one-lane crossing was bypassed in 1951 and rehabilitated in 1979. The Pleasant Valley Drive Bridge was closed in 2001 and dismantled and refurbished in 2004. Fabricated replacement members were manufactured by the Ohio Bridge Corporation of high strength steel and all parts were zinc metalized. The bridge was reassembled on site in 2005 and 2006." [BridgeHunter]

Wayne Grodkiewicz provided five photos in his comment on BridgeHunter.

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US-6 closed Apr 1, 2025, and will be closed to at least Oct 2025. [willoughbyhills]

They are reusing the piers. [ODOT]

ODOT Cleveland posted three photos with the comment: "U.S. 6 bridge over the Chagrin River in Willoughby Hills is unrecognizable from when work started just two weeks ago."

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ODOT posted three photos with the comment: "Steel beams went into place on U.S. 6 bridge over the Chagrin River!"

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The detour route.

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I wonder what percentage is going to take Dodd Road instead of I-90.