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Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

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Re: Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

 #1569372  by Rick A
 
Sometimes there are disasters. Here are a few.





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Re: Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

 #1570160  by Rick A
 
Bascule Bridge. Article from a 1909 Railway and Locomotive Engineering journal.
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Re: Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

 #1570487  by Rick A
 
Building a trestle bridge. Well, this is how the Army did it in 1870.

https://archive.org/details/organizatio ... 8/mode/2up?

https://archive.org/details/howitisdone ... tle+bridge
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Re: Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

 #1570591  by Rick A
 
A 1906 article on cantilever bridges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantileve ... 0one%20end

https://www.britannica.com/technology/b ... er-bridges
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Re: Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

 #1570779  by Rick A
 
1906 article about arched bridges from Railway and locomotive engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_bridge

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/en ... ch-bridges
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Re: Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

 #1571151  by Rick A
 
A 1906 article about BASCULE BRIDGES from Railway locomotive and engineering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bascule_bridge

https://www.britannica.com/technology/bascule-bridge

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/en ... le-bridges
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Re: Some articles and pictures of railroad bridges.

 #1572586  by Rick A
 
Nice vintage railroad bridge images from Monovision magazine

https://monovisions.com/vintage-the-for ... ion-1890s/

https://monovisions.com/vintage-railroa ... -trestles/
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