Patricksburg Road Bridge # 1 video by Mike Daffron | |
Patricksburg Road Bridge # 2 Last pix and videos of Pburg Road bridge on eve of it's destruction video by Mike Daffron |
Some of the choosing of Select bridges is a little weird. Why some very nice potentially wrought iron Pin-connected trusses got left non-select, while this small rivet-connected Warren pony truss bridge (which photo 19 shows has severe widespread complete loss of top chord channel section) was found select.
This is a "Select" bridge so the county must be replacing it with their own funds, as fed money wouldn't be available.
Here are maybe the last pix I will take of this old guy. It's scheduled to begin replacement tomorrow. It is rusting bad, but Owen Co is too cheap to paint anything. Bummer.
Yeah, the overpaid out-of-state firm that did the Indiana Historic Bridge Inventory really mucked up some of their choices. Ponies are a tough save because the counties can replace them in-house and avoid the "Select" terms altogether. This is one that should have been left off in favor of one of those older pinned Pratts Nathan was speaking of. We had a couple of substantial through-trusses left out (Namely Smithfield and Ft. Ritner) that were complete head-scratchers. We fought to have them added but with no success. Fortunately they are both still standing.