Eby Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt pony truss bridge over Brubaker Creek on Eby Road (TR 230)
- Location
- Richland County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1883 by the Massillon Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1987; replaced 2015
- Builder
- - Massillon Bridge Co. of Massillon, Ohio
- Design
- Pin-connected, 5-panel Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 58.1 ft.
Total length: 61.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.87316, -82.48659 (decimal degrees)
40°52'23" N, 82°29'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/374733/4525739 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pavonia
- Average daily traffic (as of 1991)
- 121
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 7032730 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 28317 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2014)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 19.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- December 23, 2021: Updated by Paul Plassman: Edited page to reflect that bridge was replaced
- October 27, 2015: Updated by Janis Ford: Updated status to Replaced
- October 20, 2015: Updated by Tony Dillon: Bridge is closed
- April 17, 2013: Updated by Nathan Holth: This bridge is now doomed.
Sources
- Janis Ford
- Nathan Holth
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Paul Plassman
Comments
Thanks, Nathan. I see the original bottom chord now.
Robert,
Let me clarify the design of this bridge for you, which may not be apparent in the photo. What looks like a polygonal bottom chord is not the original bottom chord. The original bottom chord is horizontal and is above the added metal which likely was added during a floorbeam alteration. Additionally, the verticals on this bridge are back-to-back channels with v-lacing on each side. This was characteristic of Massillon ponies, but your bridge appears to have angles with lattice, uncommon among Massillon ponies.
Nathan: Thank you for updating this bridge, and therefore calling my attention to it. There is a nearly identical bridge in Riley County, Kansas. Perhaps that bridge was built by the same firm. I had always wondered who the fabricator might have been, and this might give me a clue.
Link for the Kansas example:
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/richland/7032730/
Another easy way to identify the bottom chord is to look where the diagonal members meet the verticals--they always meet at the top and bottom chords and never anywhere else, except in cases of subdivided panels (Pennsylvania, Baltimore, or subdivided Warren).