To me this has meaning

 

1. To Me butter brickle ice cream has meaning but I see where your coming from Dude.
   

   Posted by Rich K       09/22/2012  at  12:26 PM  



2. I have a metal riveted Pratt through truss with a skewright outside my door Drew. I see it every morning when I walk out my door. Neener neener to you! :D

   Posted by Doctor DETH       09/22/2012  at  03:32 PM  



3. And a 4 span one at that, with dual stringer lead-ons! Not bad at all, and a nice long “in a forest of steel” driving experience, but now I have to go pick up some Thai take-out food from downtown, and I’ll have to cross Cowin’s adjustable tension, cast & wrought iron, 2 span Pratt pony from 1870, that was forged right down the road here in Lambertville ...

   http://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=newjersey/clinton/

   so I think it’s +2 to me!

   Posted by Drew458       09/22/2012  at  05:58 PM  



4. Baah.. Pennsylvania has a bad habit of tearing down out historical bridges if people don’t happen to have the cash to take them apart and store them. I hate this policy. We have lost many bridges from the 1800s because of this idiotic policy.

   Posted by Doctor DETH       09/22/2012  at  09:10 PM  



5. That and the fact that the current national load standard requires every bridge that handles normal amounts of traffic to be able to handle end-to-end tractor trailer trucks at 80,000lbs each every 60 feet in every lane, all going at highway speed.

   Many of the old ones just can’t do that, and they have to go. The exception is for areas with very limited traffic, and out here in the sticks of rural Hunterdon County we’ve got a lot of that. That’s why all our 4 ton rated bridges still stand.

   Posted by Drew458       09/23/2012  at  08:33 AM  

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