History of Bridge Engineering

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History of Bridge Engineering
H G Henry Grattan Tyrrell
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some approach viaduct. The deck has a central roadway 31 feet wide with 11-foot walks on each side. The center trusses which are 55 feet deep are continuous over the middle pier, with extension arms supporting simple spans at the sides.
342. Several notable railroad cantilevers appearing be- tween 1888 and 1892 are those at Point Pleasant, Tyrone, Red Rock, and two over the Verrugas and Pecos rivers. The CANTILEVER BRIDGES.
273 Point Pleasant bridge (Fig. 156), over the Kenawha river at Parkers
...burg, West Virginia (1888), is a through railroad Fig. 156.
cantilever with a center span of 485 feet. It has 240-foot anchor arms, 200-foot suspended span and a total length of 960 feet, the whole containing 1, 000 tons of steel. The bridge at Tyrone, Ky. (Fig. 157), over the Kentucky river (1889), conveys a single line of the Louisville and Southern Railway Fig. 157.
on a deck structure similar to that at Niagara, with a span between towers of 551 feet. Up to the date of . Its construction it was the largest and highest cantilever in America.


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