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The wooden trestle had deteriorated by the 1980s and necessitated a replacement. [6] The narrow lane configuration and lack of a shoulder caused drivers to have anxiety attacks and contributed to hazardous driving conditions. [7] A new 2.5-mile (4.0 km) eastbound trestle was built between 1991 [8] and 2001 for $100 million, using reinforced ...
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]
The United States Highway System was adopted on November 11, 1926, and designated US 10 on the future route of US 2 from Peshastin to Spokane and US 195 from Spokane to Newport. US 10 was re-routed in 1939 and replaced by US 10 Alternate , which was routed across Stevens Pass in the 1940s and itself replaced by US 2 in 1946.
U.S. Route 2 or U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway spanning 2,571 miles (4,138 km) across the northern continental United States. US 2 consists of two segments connected by various roadways in southern Canada .
United States 3 September 1861: Sabotage by Confederate partisans during US Civil War. 17–20 killed, 100 injured Chunky Creek Bridge: near Hickory, Mississippi: United States 1863: Winter flood caused a debris build-up which shifted the bridge trestle. Train bridge: Wood River Junction, RI: United States 19 April 1873: Washaway [10] [11] 7 ...
It also has city landmark status, with ID #106070. [2] As observed in a letter to the City Engineering Department in 1912, "The bridge is not an 'apurtenance of the sewer.' It is a piece of ornamental bridge architecture designed elaborately and is a very much greater thing than the sewer itself, in every way."
The Holcomb Creek Trestle, also known as the Dick Road Trestle, is a wooden railroad trestle bridge in Washington County, Oregon, United States, on Dick Road near the unincorporated community of Helvetia. Spanning 1,168 feet (356 m), it is thought to be the longest wooden railroad trestle still in use in the United States, as well as the ...
in the United States. Arboretum Sewer Trestle (1910), Seattle, Washington, NRHP-listed [1] Adamson Bridge (1916), Cherry County, Nebraska, timber stringer trestle bridge built by the Canton Bridge Co. Formerly NRHP-listed. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge, Antietam Creek, Maryland; Bridge A 249, New Mexico; Chacahoula Swamp Bridge (1995), Louisiana