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Overall View Of East And North Sides. Looking From Northeast Towards Southwest

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

Overview: Lost four-span pony truss bridge over Great Miami River on East Lockington Road
Location: Shelby County, Ohio
Status: Replaced by new bridge
History: Built 1898; replaced 1993
Builders: - Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Co. of Bellefontaine, Ohio (Other three spans)
- Brackett Bridge Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio (First span)
Design: Half-hip Pratt pony truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 49.9 ft.
Total length: 204.1 ft.
Deck width: 16.1 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.21013, -84.21521 (decimal degrees)
40°12'36" N, 84°12'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 16/736994/4454799 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map: Piqua East
Inventory numbers: OH 7530722 (Ohio bridge number)
ODOT 7530722 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 43048 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

HAER OH-76 - East Lockington Road Bridge, Spanning Great Miami River, Lockington vicinity, Shelby County, OH

East Lockington Road Bridge

Posted July 22, 2009, by Anthony Dillon (spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Yes Tom.....those are indeed the ponies that connected to the Lockington Covered Bridge.

East Lockington Road Bridge

Posted July 22, 2009, by Tom Hoffman (tehoffm [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Isn't this the pony truss bridge that led up to the Lockington Covered Bridge that burned around 1989?