Useful Links . . .
National Transportation Enhancements Clearinghouse.
Info on the most common source of money available for restoring bridges.
www.enhancements.org
National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP). Info
on general subjects related to historic preservation. http://www.nationaltrust.org/
NTHP's Northeast Office. http://www.nationaltrust.org/about_the_trust/regional/northeast.html
PreservatiON Mass. http://www.historicmass.org/
The Picker Engineering Program at Smith College in
Northampton, MA http://www.science.smith.edu/engin/index.html
Article in the Boston Globe's Real Estate section
about Northfield. http://realestate.boston.com/communities/profiles/2000/northfield.html
Historic Bridge Resources
Historic Bridges of Michigan and elsewhere
offers photos, information, and maps for historic bridges. While
various structure types are represented, emphasis is placed on metal
truss bridges.
Virginia
DOT's Historic Bridge Program . http://virginiadot.org/vtrc/history/Main.html
Web site about a fallen railroad bridge in western PA,
and the efforts to restore it http://www.kinzuabridgeonline.com/
Pennsylvania DOT's Historic Bridge Program. Click HERE.
Indiana DOT's Historic Bridge Program. http://www.in.gov/dot/programs/bridges/
New York DOT's Historic Bridge Program. http://www.dot.state.ny.us/eab/hbridge.html
Vermont Agency of Tranportation's Historic Bridge
Program. Click HERE.
Last Remaining Cast and Wrought Iron Bridges in the
U.S. Click HERE.
Historic Bridge Foundation. http://www.historicbridgefoundation.com/
The story behind Prof. Lutenegger's Bridges at UMass
Amherst. http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i48/48a04001.htm
Lenticular Truss Bridges of Massachusetts. http://www.ecs.umass.edu/cee/cee_web/bridge/1.html
Historic Bridge Case Studies in CT. http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/Preservation.html
A great site for historic bridges. http://thecaperock.com/bridges/
The project to save the Hojack Bridge in Rochester,
NY. http://www.thebridgeproject.com/
A great site for news articles about historic bridges.
http://www.iceandcoal.org/bridges/bridgenews.html
Click on this site and you'll find a special search
engine. . http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hhquery.html
Type in 'Schell Bridge' and up
will pop a detailed engineering analysis of the bridge AND hi-res tiff
files of the bridge from numerous angles.
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