Lincoln Highway Bridge
Photos
Lincoln Highway Bridge (Railings)
Photo taken by Richard Doody in September 2008
BH Photo #422618
Description
Railings from 1914 Lincoln Highway culvert located at milepost 6 US40 at entrance to I-80 East. Only other set of Lincoln Hwy. bridge railings located at Tama, Iowa.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Concrete culvert bridge on US40
- Location
- Verdi, Washoe County, Nevada
- Status
- Demolished
- History
- Built 1914 demolished 1970 railings salvaged by Nevada Department of Transportation
- Builder
- - A.F. Neidt
- Design
- Concrete culvert
- Inventory number
- BH 81177 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
Interesting shot although it appears to be a railroad rather than a highway bridge. The Lincoln Highway bridge at Tama, IA is well represented on this site @
https://bridgehunter.com/ia/tama/lincoln/
as well as on Google search and Library of Congress and unlike the Nevada prototype appears to be intact.
There was another example of this kind of railing on a different highway in Iowa: https://bridgehunter.com/ia/dubuque/bh56667/
The structure, itself, was indeed a nothing lost here 20' concrete culvert but the railings were considered cool enough at the time. The Lincoln Highway Association wanted to make them the standard design for the route. Need less to say, it didn't happen. If one wishes to split the hair precisely, I guess I'd agree the culvert was demolished and the railings preserved.
Well, this is a puzzler. This culvert was probably insignificant other than the great railings. Although the culvert was destroyed, the interesting part was preserved. Do we call this one demolished or preserved?
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/nv/washoe/lincoln-highway/
Small railroad tracks were often used by construction crews to move materials back in the day.