Rating:
47799
{99}%
1 vote
Loys Station Covered Bridge 20-10-03 #2
Photos
Photo taken by Daniel McFarland in December 2006
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BH Photo #193235
Description
The Loys Station Covered Bridge is a multiple king post wooden covered bridge near Thurmont, Maryland. The bridge was burned by an arsonist in 1991 and rebuilt using surviving framing. The original bridge spanned 90 feet in one span, but has since been modified with a pier at the middle of the span - Credit Wikipedia
Facts
- Overview
- Multiple Kingpost through truss bridge over Owens Creek on Old Frederick Road
- Location
- Frederick County, Maryland
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1885; rehabilitated 1994
- Design
- Multiple Kingpost through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 38.1 ft.
Total length: 89.9 ft.
Deck width: 12.8 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.60875, -77.35132 (decimal degrees)
39°36'32" N, 77°21'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/298140/4386975 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Woodsboro
- Average daily traffic (as of 2007)
- 978
- Inventory number
- BH 47799 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of October 2017)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 67.4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 16, 2015: New photos from David McCardell
- November 6, 2013: New Street View added by J.P.
- November 19, 2011: Updated by Jodi Christman: Added description
- February 3, 2011: New photos from Daniel McFarland
- January 21, 2011: Added by J.P.
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Daniel McFarland
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- Wikipedia - Tidbit on bridge
- David McCardell - mccardelldavid [at] gmail [dot] com
Truck attack:
http://m.fredericknewspost.com/news/crime_and_justice/police...
Just in case Pollocks Mill wasn't enough.