The base of each frame is formed by 6-ft-deep by 160-ft-long box-section floor beams. Towers, 100 ft tall, 18 ft deep and 113 ft wide, are braced to the beams to hold the trusses in position.

The 136-year-old bridge had collapsed, leveling the structure and dumping its roof and portions of its trusses into Stonelick Creek. But a far greater disaster was narrowly averted.

The bridge quickly became outdated as trains got larger and heavier. In 1990, The Kansas City Southern Railroad gave the bridge to the City of Shreveport, and it was added to the National Register of ...

OLYMPIA, WA - The Washington State Department of Transportation is considering a program to raise the clearance height of some steel truss bridges built from the late 1940's to the early 1960's ...

The proposed installations by Hyphae would incorporate the original 504-foot truss spans, fashioning them into a bridge tower that would frame the touchdown of the bicycle and pedestrian route on ...

Photo by Lon Horwedel, The Ann Arbor NewsThe metal truss of the Delhi bridge is lifted over the Huron River Wednesday as workers return it to its moorings after several months of work at the site ...

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, Ky. (KFVS) - Efforts to lift a 700-foot truss into place on the new Cumberland River Bridge resumed Wednesday, September 14 after crews had to stop Tuesday evening.