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Overview

This photo from Darren Guin shows the bridge before it was made obsolete by a new parallel bridge

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Looking northeast

The rest of these photos were taken December 2005 by Wayne Kizziar

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Looking southeast

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Deck view

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Vertical lift towers

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Looking up at tower

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Close-up of pulley

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Plaque

Built by
Caddo Parish
Police Jury
W.T. Crawford, Pres.
D.P. Hollis William Winter
R.E.L. Huckabay Wm. F. Thoman
R.H. Cullidge George Thurber
L.B. Phillips F.C. Nagle
J.A. Sebastian C.M. Hutchinson
C.E. Perroncel, Parish Treas.
J.T Bullen, Parish Engr.
Waddell & Harrington
Consulting Engineers
Kansas City Mo.
The Midland Bridge Co.
Kansas City Mo.
Contractors
1914

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Overhead sign

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Underneath

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Damage underneath

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Panorama View

Photo taken by Wayne Kizziar

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Map

Vicinity map

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Facts

Overview: Vertical lift bridge over Caddo Lake on LA 538 at Mooringsport
Location: Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Status: Open to pedestrians only
History: Built 1914; lift mechanism disabled in the 1940s; replacement bridge built 1994; rehabilitated and reopened as a pedestrian bridge in 1995
Builders: - Midland Bridge Co. of Kansas City, Missouri (Contractor)
- Waddell & Harrington (Consulting engineers)
Design: Vertical lift Warren pony truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 95.0 ft.
Total length: 575.0 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1996
Approximate latitude, longitude: +32.69609, -93.95787 (decimal degrees)
32°41'46" N, 93°57'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory number: BH 18979 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

February 26, 2008: New photo from Wayne Kizziar
December 19, 2005: Posted photos from Wayne Kizziar

Sources

Darren Guin
Wayne Kizziar - wayne1701 [at] cableone [dot] net
Wikipedia

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Caddo Lake Bridge

Posted February 5, 2008, by Some Guy

This bridge two that was designed by Waddell & Harrington.

The only other bridge like this is the ASB (Armour-Swift-Burlington) Bridge in Kansas City.