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  2. Fair Oaks Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Built. 1907-09. Location. The Fair Oaks Bridge is a truss bridge over the lower banks of the American River, connecting Fair Oaks to the greater Sacramento, California region. The current bridge, built 1907-1909 at a cost of $63,000, [2] is the third bridge at this location. The first bridge, which opened in 1901, helped to transform the small ...

  3. Dinkey Creek Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Added to NRHP. September 5, 1996. Location. The Dinkey Creek Bridge, also known as Fresno County Bridge No. 42C-04, [a] is a single-span, timber bowstring arch truss bridge that crosses Dinkey Creek in Fresno County, California, within Sierra National Forest. Built in 1938, it closed to automobile traffic in 1965 and was renovated in 1988 to ...

  4. Timber roof truss - Wikipedia

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    This is an example of a "double roof" with principal rafters and common rafters. A timber roof truss is a structural framework of timbers designed to bridge the space above a room and to provide support for a roof. Trusses usually occur at regular intervals, linked by longitudinal timbers such as purlins. The space between each truss is known ...

  5. Howe truss - Wikipedia

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    The Howe truss used iron vertical rods in tension with wooden diagonal braces. Both trusses used counter-bracing, which was becoming essential now that heavy railroad trains were using bridges. [1] In 1830, Stephen Harriman Long received a patent for an all-wood parallel chord truss bridge. Long's bridge contained diagonal braces which were ...

  6. List of covered bridges in California - Wikipedia

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    There are ten authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of California, and eight of them are historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trusses rather than other methods such as stringers, a popular choice for non-authentic covered bridges.

  7. Albion River Bridge - Wikipedia

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    300 m (980 ft) Longest span. 40 m (130 ft) History. Construction end. 1944. Location. The Albion River Bridge is a wooden deck truss bridge crossing the Albion River in Mendocino County, California. It is the only remaining wooden bridge on California State Route 1; [1][2] dramatic views of the bridge are visible from the nearby town of Albion ...

  8. Framing (construction) - Wikipedia

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    The construction frames of a residential subdivision in Rogers, Minnesota in 2023. Framing, in construction, is the fitting together of pieces to give a structure support and shape. [1] Framing materials are usually wood, engineered wood, or structural steel. The alternative to framed construction is generally called mass wall construction ...

  9. Fink truss - Wikipedia

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    The first Fink Truss bridge was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1852 to span the Monongahela River at Fairmont, Virginia (now West Virginia). It consisted of three spans, each 205 feet long. It was the longest iron railroad bridge in the United States at the time. Several other Fink trusses held world records for their time ...

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