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List Of Trestle Bridges
This is a list of trestle bridges. The United States once had many; now some survive and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). These include: ;in the United States *Sulphur Trestle Fort Site, Elkmont, Alabama, NRHP-listed *St. Francis River Bridge (Lake City, Arkansas) *West James Street Overpass (1924), Redfield, Arkansas *Warrens Bridge (c. 1930), Arkansas *Clio Trestle, California *Dumbarton Rail Bridge, California *Richmond–San Rafael Bridge, California *San Mateo–Hayward Bridge, California *San Luis Southern Railway Trestle, Blanca, Colorado, NRHP-listed *D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle, Cimarron, Colorado, NRHP-listed *Doe Run Trestle, Springfield, Kentucky, NRHP-listed *Chacahoula Swamp Bridge (1995), Louisiana *Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, Louisiana *CNR Bonnet Carré Spillway-McComb Bridge, Louisiana *Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge, Louisiana *U.S. 61 Bonnet Carré Spillway Bridge, Louisiana *Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge, Antietam Creek, Maryland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trestle Bridges
A trestle bridge is a bridge composed of a number of short spans supported by closely spaced frames. A trestle support, trestle (sometimes tressel) is a rigid frame used as a support, historically a tripod used to support a stool or a pair of isosceles triangles joined at their apices by a Plank (wood), plank or beam (structure), beam such as the support structure for a trestle table. Each supporting frame is a bent (structural), bent. A trestle differs from a viaduct in that viaducts have towers that support much longer spans and typically have a higher elevation. Timber and iron trestles (i.e. bridges) were extensively used in the 19th century, the former making up from 1 to 3 percent of the total length of the average railroad. In the 21st century, steel and sometimes concrete trestles are commonly used to bridge particularly deep valleys, while timber trestles remain common in certain areas. Many timber trestles were built in the 19th and early 20th centuries with the exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |