MOUNT CARBON – The expert hired to restore the Mount Carbon bowstring iron truss bridge says the 128-year-old span is a real historical gem. “On a preservation scale, it’s a nine or 10,” Doug Lockhart ...

Public Works suggests that some of the bow-string truss elements, which can be seen most clearly from First Avenue, might be salvaged and displayed as architectural sculpture in Riverfront Park. The ...

CLAVERACK — Preservationists want to restore an architecturally significant bridge that for the first 30 years of its life only saw horse-drawn buggies and dairy cows plying its once-busy Claverack ...

An unusual bowstring truss iron bridge that carried traffic across Roaring Run in Bedford County, Va. for almost 100 years is now a picturesque footbridge at the I-81 Ironto, Va. rest stop. Built in ...

The 143-year-old wrought iron bowstring arch-truss structure, which connects Ridout and Blackfriars streets, is Ontario’s oldest working crossing. The 221-ft. ½-in. long bridge deck carries vehicles, ...

The blue bowstring bridge at Fountain Island in Lakeside Park is being proposed for local historic designation. The Historic Preservation Commission will take up the matter when it meets at 6 p.m.

Truss bridges have a long pedigree. The first ones were made of wood and erected in various European countries at least as early as the 16th century. Beginning in the late 1700s, many of them were ...

Blacksburg, Va. – An unusual bowstring truss iron bridge that carried traffic across Roaring Run in Bedford County, Va. for almost 100 years is now a picturesque footbridge at the I-81 Ironto, Va.