Typical small-town highway bridge, produced
by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company in 1888

Typical Berlin bridge

This pony lenticular truss, 83 feet long, formerly carried Rose Bridge Road over the Hop River in Columbia and Coventry, Connecticut. An oil truck, ignoring the posted weight limit, went through the deck in 1977, and the bridge was replaced shortly thereafter.


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