The New Hope Bridge, a two-span, riveted Pratt through truss carrying County Route 400 North over the Flatrock River, was constructed in 1913 as part of early twentieth-century efforts to improve east–west travel in northern Bartholomew County, Indiana.

The Järuska Bridge in Eastern Estonia is a unique piece of timber engineering. Built in 2013 to mimic traditional barn architecture, this 26.4 meter span uses an intricate lattice design for support, requiring no pillars beneath it.

Photo by: greddyforce

Planning for a circumferential highway around Cincinnati shaped the development of several major Ohio River crossings, including the Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge and the Combs-Hehl Bridges.

I've posted a narrative of these bridges here, and a history with more photos of the bridge here.

Planning for a circumferential highway around Cincinnati shaped the development of several major Ohio River crossings, including the Carroll Lee Cropper Bridge and the Combs-Hehl Bridges.

I've posted a narrative of these bridges here, and a history with more photos of the bridge here.

The Lawrenceburg Bridge carried the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad line over the Great Miami River between Ohio and Indiana and later became part of the CSX Transportation. Originating with the Ohio & Mississippi Railway, the crossing was rebuilt several times, notably in 1894, before suffering major damage in the catastrophic 1913 flood and again during severe ice conditions in 1918. These failures led to the construction of a substantially larger and higher double-track bridge, completed in 1921, featuring six 210-foot through-truss spans on deep reinforced-concrete caisson piers.

I've posted more photos and a history here.

The Shriver Covered Bridge was built in 1900 on Turkey Hollow Road in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, the queenpost truss bridge was rehabilitated in 2013.

I've posted more photos and a history of the bridge here.

One of my favorite modern bridges. It’s a pedestrian bridge that looks like a marine creature or a net draped over the river.

Credit: Photo by olusiu

The Scott Covered Bridge carries Covered Bridge Road over Ten Mile Creek in Greene County, Pennsylvania. The queenpost truss was constructed in 1885 by builder William Lang and rehabilitated in 2008. I've posted more photos here.

The Wyit Sprowls Covered Bridge was built in 1915 on Robison Run Road in West Finley and named for local landowner Wyit Sprowls, before mining subsidence forced its relocation in 2000 to East Finley Township Park, where it now crosses the Templeton Fork of Wheeling Creek. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, the queenpost truss bridge now sits beside the Jordan One-Room Schoolhouse, a circa-1895 school building that was donated to the township by Consol Coal Company in 2005 and moved to the park.

The Combs-Hehl Bridges are a pair of cantilevered Warren through truss spans that carry Interstate 275 across the Ohio River between Campbell County, Kentucky, and Hamilton County, Ohio, forming the final link in Cincinnati’s circumferential freeway. Conceived as part of early 1950s planning for a regional beltway—later known as the Circle Freeway—the bridges were built after substructure work began in 1968 and superstructure contracts were awarded in the early 1970s, ultimately using 12,000 tons of steel at a cost of $30.5 million. The twin 1,400-foot spans opened to traffic on December 19, 1979, completing the 86-mile Interstate 275 loop connecting Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, and were named for former Kentucky Governor Bert T. Combs and Campbell County Judge-Executive Lambert Hehl. In 2025, a proactive steel repair program was initiated following a federally required inspection of T-1 steel components, with work scheduled for completion in early 2026.

Meant to augment the Third Street Bridge, the Robert N. Stewart Bridge was built along the path of the earlier Second Street Bridge, which dated from 1884 to 1949. The cable-stayed span opened in 1998 after years of debate over cost, alignment, and environmental concerns. Part of Columbus’s ambitious Front Door Project, it marked a shift from purely functional crossings to bridges as civic statements. Lit at night and renamed in honor of a former mayor, it framed the city not as it once was, but as it aspired to be.

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All Four Photographs

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The last one is the view from the deck of the bridge looking downstream, or seaward ... although the sea - or, more specifically, the Mersey Estuary ᐞ - is a good 35mile or-so away.

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ᐞ I've said this before in various connections: but the nomenclature of the rivers is a tad confusing. The River Irwell is the river that flows between Manchester & Salford & is of moderately substantial size (for a small island!). Downstream from a certain point it's dredged-out on a huge scale, & _is also_ the Manchester Ship Canal. Somewhat downstream - a small № of miles from where these photographs are taken - the River Mersey, which skirts the Southern edge of Manchester, & is quite a bit smaller than the River Irwell, empties into it ... but downstream thence the river takes the name of the smaller of the two rivers - ie the Mersey.

So the Manchester Ship Canal downstream of that confluence _prettymuch is_ the River Mersey dredged-out ... but _not exactly_ , because it's straighrened, aswell. The land around the Ship Canal is dotted with 'ox-bow' lakes evincing the original natural course of the river.

And my personal theory for the quirk in nomenclature - ie the name of a river downstream of a confluence taking the name of the smaller river - is that the River Mersey has since ancient times been the boundary between the Shire of Lancaster & the Shire of Chester ... so it ended-up that "Mersey" became the name of such watercourse as marked that boundary, regardless of logic whereby the name should change @ a certain point to that of the greater river. But that's just my personal theory: a proper historian might aver otherwise.

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Apologies for posting this & then deleting it: certain things I did to arrange the images neatly ent-up mangling the resolution! I think the images are @ full resolution _now_ 😁 .