The Lusted Road Bridge is a pin-connected Pennsylvania-Petit truss consisting of both wrought iron and steel members. The bridge was originally part of the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon crossing the Willamette River, but was moved to the current location in 1926. The truss portals contain nautical design elements which were appropriate to its former location crossing the Willamette shipping channel. The Lusted and Bull Run Bridges are the only remaining bridges on the Oregon highway system that utilize wrought iron as a building material.
The Lusted Bridge is adjacent to the Portland Waterworks Bridge which is a similar pin-connected wrought iron truss bridge built in 1895 to carry water pipes.
(Historical Highway Bridges of Oregon - 1989)
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 300.0 ft.
Total length: 300.0 ft.
Deck width: 23.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+45.26421, -122.15136 (decimal degrees) 45°15'51" N, 122°09'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
10/566577/5012651 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Cherryville
Inventory number
BH 29879 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 08/2006)
Deck condition rating: Good(7 out of 9) Superstructure condition rating: Fair(5 out of 9) Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory(6 out of 9) Sufficiency rating: 45.7 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2006)
711
Categories
Update Log
November 25, 2008: Updated by Michael Goff: Added Design Description
October 8, 2008: New photo from Michael Goff
August 5, 2008: New photos from Michael Goff
July 30, 2008: Updated by Michael Goff
June 10, 2008: Updated by Michael Goff
Sources
Michael Goff - michael [dot] goff [at] odot [dot] state [dot] or [dot] us