1923-67 US-66 Bridge over Little Piney Creek at Arlington, MO

(no Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite, coordinates from BridgeHunter. I think it was further west because of the topo map below and because US-66 went through Arlington.)

I'm confused about the location because Missouri archive photo near the bottom of these notes shows a sharp curve just before the bridge, but the postcard just below does not have that curve. The topo map below shows a curve at Arlington, MO, and then a straight shot across the creek.

US-66 Overview

Postcard via BridgeHunter

Route 66 Postcards posted two photos with the comment:

Little Piney Bridge at Arlington, Missouri, Route 66, circa the 1950s.

   This photo is courtesy of 66postcards.

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"Looking East. Original 1923 bridge on the right in use for EB traffic. 1952 bridges at left used for WB traffic. The original (EB) bridge was removed in 1967." Missouri State Archives via BridgeHunter

"Original Route 66 plunged downhill and turned sharply onto a railroad bridge and a five span through truss Pratt Through Truss over the Little Pinery built in 1923. This was the last section of US 66 in Missouri to be paved, completed on January 5, 1931. In 1932, the railroad bridge was replaced with a concrete slab. In 1952, Route 66 was expanded to four lanes, with a concrete girder and a Steel Girder to carry westbound traffic. The old bridge continued to carry EB I-44 until 1967. The 1952 bridges were replaced in 2005 and the 1967 bridge was re-habbed." [BridgeHunter]

I remember Arlington, MO, from when I studied the Frisco Depot. See those notes for more information of US-66.

1950/57 Newburg Quad @ 24,000 via Dennis DeBruler

1965 NS/(CNJ+Lehigh Valley) and 1924 Hill to Hill Bridges over Lehigh River in Bethlehem, PA

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

Hill to Hill: (no Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; HAER; Satellite)

2017 photo by Royce and Bobette Haley via BridgeHunter_railroad
Looking East - Hill to Hill Bridge in background

A view of the railroad bridge from the road bridge.

Street View, Oct 2014

The steel girder span on the left is part of the railroad bridge. This shows that the Hill-to-Hill Bridge is a closed spandrel concrete arch bridge over the river. There are trusses at each end because there used to be a lot of tracks in this town.

Street View, Jul 2024

HistoricBridges_railroad
"This classic railroad truss bridge sits in the shadow of the large Hill-To-Hill Bridge. The plate girder section was rebuilt in 1965 by Bethlehem Steel Company. It is not known if Bethlehem constructed the original through truss main spans as well, nor when those original spans date to."

"Significance: The Hill-to-Hill Bridge was the first bridge to join the boroughs of the City of Bethlehem with a high-level structure eliminating all railroad grade crossings. The structure, constructed almost entirely of reinforced concrete, owed its unusual shape to the eight access ramp structures that fed traffic to the Main Bridge avoiding numerous railroad tracks." [HAER_data]

This overview shows that much of the bridge is a viaduct over the flood plain to avoid city congestion. 

HAER PA,48-BETH,17--1
1. Overall view - Hill-to-Hill Bridge, Spans Lehigh River at State Route 378, Bethlehem, Northampton County, PA

This view shows part of the viaduct that goes all the way to the ancient riverbank.

Street View, Aug 2023

E. Miller, Jan 2024

Metrotrails posted
A view from the Hill-to-Hill Bridge in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, with the rail bridge across the Lehigh River that connected the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bethlehem Branch with the Central Railroad of New Jersey on the north side.
Metrotrails shared

ArchivedBridgeHunter_railroad indicates that the predecessor to NS was Reading. So, was Lehigh Valley a predecessor to Reading? The topo maps label the railroad south of the river as Lehigh Valley until it is labeled Conrail.

1957/60 Allentown Quad @ 62,500

Metrotrails posted

A view at one of the accesses to the Hill-to-Hill Bridge in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

The current Hill to Hill Bridge was completed in 1924 to replace the aged covered bridge that was constantly in need of repairs. The new bridge is a symbol of the combining of the municipalities of Bethlehem and South Bethlehem to become the City of Bethlehem. Originally, Hill to Hill Bridge had about 11 points of access. Many were cut off with the development of Rt 378.

Bridges shared

1903 BNSF/NP Bridge over Yakima River east of Thorn, WA

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

Frank Keller Photography posted
When I first arrived here the deer were perfectly content to watch me watch them. However as the arrival of the empty grain train grew closer I detected a wariness from the deer and figured they would be moving to another location. So while there were about a dozen before the train arrived there were about 7 remaining by the time the train arrived. Nonetheless it makes for an interesting capture on a dreary morning. Approaching Ellensburg about to cross the Yakima River. 9.18.21

2019 photo by John Bernhisel via BridgeHunter

Both photographers were in the field that is northeast of the bridge.

Satellite

1920 Germantown Dam on Twin Creek near Germantown, OH

(Satellite)

Aug 2026

The outlet tubes are full, and the water is coming out under pressure.

Facebook Reel

It looks like Ohio got some of that rain that caused record flooding in Central and Southeast Indiana.

WaterData

TheDaytonMagazine
"How the Germantown Dam is made up"
This is one of five dry dams that was built after the 1913 flood to reduce flood damage 

TheDaytonMagazine

Three c1930 photos of the dam

OhioMemory, cropped
"A conservancy road goes across the top of the dam. The dam was built to temporarily store floodwater and has no gates or permanent pool. It is 1,210 feet long and 100 feet high. There are two concrete conduits through the base of the embankment at the north abutment. The conduits are sized to discharge a peak flow during an Official Plan Flood that can be handled by the flood protection levees and channels downstream. The remainder of the floodwaters are temporarily stored behind the dam and released over time. An emergency spillway is located in a low area through the left abutment north of the dam."

At first, I could not find the spillway. But the above "An emergency spillway is located in a low area through the left abutment north of the dam." allowed me to find it.

Satellite

It appears that the 31.5' depth in the above water data chart is about twice as high as the conduit. The dam is 100' high.

mcdwater_2025
"Germantown Dam is an earthen embankment that spans 1,210 feet across Twin Creek....It’s capable of storing up to 34.55 billion gallons of floodwater and managing it through two massive conduits — each 546 feet long, 9.1 feet high, and 13 feet wide — that run through the bottom of the dam."

mcdwater_2025
[I agree that the concrete needed to be repaired.]

mcdwater_2025

It is the right descending conduit that was repaired.

dayton447now
The flood control project included 55 miles of levees and channelization of parts of the river to accommodate the full output of the conduits.

More importantly than the dam being 100' high, the spillway is about 80' high. So, a water depth of 31.5' is a rather small fraction of the reservoir since the capacity increases as the water goes up because the water spreads out over more land.

1960/62 Farmersville Quad @ 24,000

Rock Island Washed-Out Culvert in Enid, OK

(Satellite, my guess based on the topo map below.)

Note, this is old news. This was not part of the Aug 2026 flooding.

Another example of the importance of making a culvert big enough to handle a rare flash flood. If the culvert is not big enough, the embankment becomes a dam that gets overtopped.

It is common to replace a wood trestle with an embankment that covers up the trestle.

Fans of Rock Island Lines posted
Enid OK,  looks to me to be a washout after a culvert went in. I don't see anyway to get those cars there without a locomotive having made the crossing? either it crumbled as it passed or the engineer and fireman had one hell of a ride? It's not uncommon for the piles to remain buried under the berm. I always chuckle at the people on top of the cars.

Paul D. French: We had a 25 foot fill with three culverts each three times the size of the one in the photo. During a huge rain storm brush clogged the culverts. When the rear end crew walked up to the head end the water on the top of the fill was ankle deep. The whole will washed away. The crew did get the train across before the track was gone. It took a couple weeks to install a bridge.

Mike Nehring: When we filled bridge like this,we would install the culverts , fill in around the culvert up to the bottom of stringer cord, let stand for maybe 6 months to a year, then come back in & pull the stringer cord out & fill the rest in with ballast. It was totally different if it was some other factor involved. But yes that bridge/culvert washed out.

Note the contour lines that parallel the track over the creek. That indicates there was an embankment here.

1856/57 Enid Quad @ 62,500

It looks like the culvert got replaced by a bridge.

Satellite

UP now owns this route.

National Rail Network Map

1928,2007 Warsaw Upper (Swinging) Bridge and 1979 160mw Truman Dam on Osage River near Warsaw, MO

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

Dam: (Satellite)

East side:

Street View, Mar 2026

A side span is suspended on the west side.

Street View, Jul 2023

This shows the asymmetry of the bridge. Not only is the east (right) pier on land, that side is higher than the west side.

Street View, Oct 2022

HistoricBridges
The 600' (183m) long bridge has a main span of 510' (155m).
"This bridge is the largest surviving Joseph Dice bridge and the only one that has been preserved."

"http://articles.ky3.com/2013-01-31/warsaw_36666966 [broken]  Sounds like there was some trouble with the rehabilitation and this bridge is closed again because the new deck has already rotted." [2013 comment by jayhawk on ArchivedBridgeHunter.]

HAER MO,8-WARS,2--2
2. VIEW LOOKING EAST, 'BARREL SHOT' FROM BRIDGE DECK - Warsaw Bridge, Spanning South Grand River, Warsaw, Benton County, MO

John Albert Christeson Jr. posted two photos with the comment: "Warsaw Suspension Bridge over Truman Lake.....Warsaw Mo."

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Charlotte Thornley, Mar 2026
[HistoricBridges has more information about Joe Dice.]

Truman Dam

USACE_release, Photo by Rachel Donatti, June 25, 2019

"Truman Reservoir is the largest flood control reservoir in Missouri, with a storage capacity of more than 5 million acre-feet (an acre-foot = 325,000 gal.). At normal pool (706 ft. above mean sea level) the reservoir has a surface area of about 55,600 acres – this surface area can grow to over 200,000 acres at the top of the flood control pool. During periods of flooding, Truman Reservoir, operating in conjunction with other reservoirs, helps protect the lower Osage, Missouri and Mississippi River floodplains. The Truman Power Plant has six turbine generators and a rated capacity of 160,000 kilowatts. This electrical energy is used to meet peak electrical demands when conventional power plants cannot fulfill the public’s demand for electricity. Power plant operators are on duty around the clock to control the flow of water through Truman Dam. Additionally, the power plants located at Stockton and Mark Twain lakes are remotely controlled from Truman Dam." [USACE_lake]

dvidshub, Photo by James Lowe for USACE, Public Domain
"During the late spring of 2017, Corps Water Management personnel directed water to be released from the Harry S. Truman Dam near Warsaw, Mo., for more than a week at 50,000 cubic feet per second. The photo was taken on May 9, 2017 during the rapid release of water from spring rains."
[It indicates 1 of 4 images, but I can't figure out how to access the other images.]

clui, CLUI photo
The Army Corps of Engineers built this flood control dam and reservoir on the Osage River, starting in 1964. It took 15 years to complete, mostly due to the extensive removal and relocating of people, towns, roads and bridges over the 56,000 acre reservoir area. The dam was complete in 1979, and its powerhouse used six reversible turbines to generate 160 megawatts of power and to pump water back through the dam from its afterbay. The afterbay is an arm of the similarly sized but massively redeveloped Lake of the Ozarks, also formed by a dam on the Osage River. This pump-back function was not engaged for years, due to environmental and technical problems that have impeded its use.

Street View, Jul 2023

Street View, Jul 2023

1831 Wolf Creek Grist Mill near Loudonville, OH

(Satellite)

candy call, May 2021

Astrid Oliver, Aug 2021

13:16 video @ 2:17
The Power Behind Wolf's Grist Mill