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Cast stone is commonly manufactured by two methods, the first method is the dry tamp method and the second is the wet cast process. [6] Both methods manufactured a simulated natural cut stone look. Wood, plaster, glue, sand, sheet metal, and gelatin are the molding materials that are used to manufacture drawing work and casting molds like ...
The Chester Factory depot is a contributing element of the Chester Factory Village Historic District. The two stone bridges included in the landmark designation, as well as the historic roadbed, are part of the Middlefield–Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District; the bridges are listed as numbers 5 and 6 in that collection. [3]
Pages in category "Stone arch bridges in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 259 total.
The Maidenhead Railway Bridge may have the two longest arches made of bricks, 39 metres (128 ft). Building new masonry arch bridges today is a solely Chinese business. There are 18 stone arch bridges with spans exceeding 100 m (330 ft). [1] There are probably several dozens of stone arches exceeding 40m in the Fujian province only. [2]
It has a span of 20 meters and an arch just 60 cm thick and was built without any bonding mortar. [28] In Cambodia, the Phra Phutthos bridge was constructed at the end of the 12th century during the reign of Jayavarman VII. It features over 20 slender arches and is 75 meters long, making it the longest stone corbel arch bridge in the world. [19]
The Seventh Street Improvement Arches are a double-arched masonry highway bridge that formerly spanned the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad tracks in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Seventh Street Improvement Arches are historically significant for its rarity and the technically demanding nature of its skewed, helicoidal spiral, stone ...
Tied arch bridges in the United States (69 P) Pages in category "Arch bridges in the United States" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total.
The Illinois Central Stone Arch Railroad Bridges are a trio of limestone railroad bridges in the city of Dixon, Illinois, United States. The bridges were constructed between 1852 and 1855 as the Illinois Central Railroad laid its first rail lines across the state of Illinois. They were designed by Robert F. Laing for Laing and Douglas ...