It’s gone.
The only vestiges of the old bridge are the places where its arches once touched down. Rebar sticks out like coarse, unruly hair.
Most of the bridge’s pieces must have been carted away, but some piles of concrete chunks remain. This photo looks up at the south approach.
A staggering amount of rebar is left in [...]
The old bridge on Lafayette Road (old US 52) is now half gone.
Bridge bits are piling up everywhere! Check out all that twisted rebar.
I wish so many bridge bits didn’t have to end up in Eagle Creek.
Calling my smarts into question, I climbed up an unstable and shifting pile of debris to get a better [...]
At the end of week 2 of the old bridge’s demolition, half of the deck has been removed.
The bridge was once part of US 52, one of the original 1926 US highways. At first, that highway led only from northwest of tiny Fowler, Indiana to Bluefield, WV. But by the 1950s it stretched from Portal, ND to Charleston, SC, crossing the Mississippi River three times along the way.
In the days before county [...]
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