Eric Root

Bridge is closed, plans in work to rehab

http://bit.ly/vjzU2Y

Looks much like the abandoned Moonville tunnel

http://bridgehunter.com/oh/vinton/moonville-tunnel/

Compare to the still in use cambridge tunnel:

http://bridgehunter.com/oh/guernsey/cambridge-tunnel/

Can't say I don't agrees that Mr. Weins' perspective on what makes a noteworthy bridge is far outside of mine, and I expect anyone else's here. I had posted the link to the news article before. I asked Sheldon if it was him, and he confirmed it was. If you take a close look at, it may shed some light why he and the rest of the communtiy here may never be able to see eye to eye.

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=164619&provider=top

Sheldon, are you the same Sheldon who has recently been unable to get your dog back?

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=164619&provider=top

Perhaps it was moved, or more likely rehabed in 1981. Certainly not built.

Google Panoramio has a photo marked as being the actual bridge http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/37303967.jpg

I think this NBI date pertains to the newer bridge built (Reconstructed?) in 1983 http://bridgehunter.com/oh/ashtabula/state-road/

This is a duplicate listing for the Carl D. Perkins bridge http://bridgehunter.com/oh/scioto/carl-d-perkins/

Is there a way to tell if you have previously voted for a bridge? I know I've already "updated" a couple votes that I forgot I'd already cast.

Looks like it may have been similar to this bridge:

http://bridgehunter.com/al/sumter/whiskey-road/

Based on the description here, it looks like the original location of this bridge was at 39.668729,-84.453664. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=39.668729,-84.453664&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.86519,92.900391&ie=UTF8&z=16

Glad it was saved, but I wish it could have been put to use -even if for pedestrians only- over a true body of water rather than just an empty ditch.

Maybe the "grandfather's axe" comment was an exaggeration. These bridges look like they have been restored very well, and if maintained I can see them making their bicentennial and beyond. But while I don't like seeing a bridge deteriorate, I tend to like a bridge on which I can see the years. I think that is why I like so many of the older trusses I see. They're still there - not because they've been cared for but in spite of the abuse and apathy that's come their way thus far. Sadly it's the apathy, and the accompanying wrecking crew the counties send out that get's them in the end.

Stopped by Warnke and Geeting covered bridges yesterday. Both have been restored in the last few years. I don't know what to make of them. They don't "feel" old. I wonder how much is original vs replaced. They make me think of the "grandfather's axe" paradox- i.e. "this is my grandfather's axe. My father replaced the haft, and I put a new head on it"

Nice to see it preserved, but it's a shame they had to add those concrete piers. It would have be nice to at least put a stone facade on them, if not build them out of stone to match the abutments.