Bridges & Tunnels by Sherman Cahal

Bridges & Tunnels by Sherman Cahal Bridges & Tunnels is a record of historic or notable infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, ferries, and highways.

A simple trussed crossing of the Pawcatuck River between Stonington, Connecticut, and Westerly, Rhode Island, survives a...
09/03/2026

A simple trussed crossing of the Pawcatuck River between Stonington, Connecticut, and Westerly, Rhode Island, survives as one of the few remnants of the Norwich & Westerly electric interurban line. Completed in 1909, it included a parallel bridge for automobiles. The interurban ended in 1922; the automobile bridge closed in 1976 and was replaced in 1994–95.

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The Shequaga Falls Bridge was designed by George F. Barton and built by the Seneca Engineering Company in 1948–49 to cro...
08/31/2026

The Shequaga Falls Bridge was designed by George F. Barton and built by the Seneca Engineering Company in 1948–49 to cross Shequaga Falls and Creek in Montour Falls, New York. It was among the last designs of Barton, a Princeton graduate who joined the Elmira Bridge Co. in 1898 converting iron railroad bridges to steel, then founded Seneca Engineering with Earl W. Livings in 1902. Barton died on January 23, 1949, and his son George Titus Barton finished the bridge.

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A plain Pratt through truss, put up in 1915 along Catatonk Creek Road outside West Candor in central New York. It was re...
08/28/2026

A plain Pratt through truss, put up in 1915 along Catatonk Creek Road outside West Candor in central New York. It was rehabilitated in 1974 and has been closed for a number of years, structural deterioration finally catching up with it.

I first came across it in the dead of winter after a heavy snow, when the whole thing was outlined in white and there was nobody around to wonder what I was doing. I went back this past June to see it again.

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Two wire suspension bridges from 1934, crossing over and alongside Fall Creek at Stewart Park in Ithaca. Both are holdin...
08/26/2026

Two wire suspension bridges from 1934, crossing over and alongside Fall Creek at Stewart Park in Ithaca. Both are holding up remarkably well, with some structural modification and strengthening over the years, which is what keeps a light bridge in service, and a fairly new coat of paint on top of it.

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I had an hour to kill before an airport run, so I went poking around Clinton, New Jersey, and turned my attention to the...
08/24/2026

I had an hour to kill before an airport run, so I went poking around Clinton, New Jersey, and turned my attention to the historic Main Street Bridge.

Built in 1870, it's a pin-connected pony Pratt truss of composite cast and wrought iron, and like a lot of its contemporaries, it was built with an eye for looks as much as load. The Italianate end posts and decorative cast iron railing are the giveaway. New Jersey still has a handful of these scattered through its quieter corners, and they're worth the detour every time.

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A crane held the McPherson's Ford Bridge in the air, intact, on its last day. Built in 1897 and bypassed in 2013, the Al...
08/21/2026

A crane held the McPherson's Ford Bridge in the air, intact, on its last day. Built in 1897 and bypassed in 2013, the Alleghany County, Virginia span was lifted apart and dropped in a field for scrap after the state found its deterioration left too little reuse value. But a footbridge carries a fraction of a highway load, and stringers that fail a vehicular rating can still serve a pedestrian-only trail. The real problem is that demolition is fast and needs no partner, while saving one of these takes a willing recipient, a place to store it, and someone to pay the freight.

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People have wanted a canal through this mile of sand since 1627. It finally opened in 1914, beat the Panama Canal by sev...
08/19/2026

People have wanted a canal through this mile of sand since 1627. It finally opened in 1914, beat the Panama Canal by seventeen days, and promptly failed to make anyone money. Here's the story of the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts and the three 1935 bridges that cross it, photographed on a windless June evening from sunset into blue hour.

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The Sagamore Bridge is a steel arch bridge that carries U.S. Route 6 over the Cape Cod Canal in Sagamore, Massachusetts....
08/14/2026

The Sagamore Bridge is a steel arch bridge that carries U.S. Route 6 over the Cape Cod Canal in Sagamore, Massachusetts. Completed in 1935 alongside its sister span, the Bourne Bridge, it carries four narrow lanes of traffic. Now nearing a century of service, the Sagamore Bridge is slated for replacement with twin arch spans as part of the broader Cape Cod Bridges Program because of structural deterioration and functional obsolesce.

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The Bourne Bridge is a steel arch bridge that carries State Route 28 over the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne, Massachusetts. C...
08/12/2026

The Bourne Bridge is a steel arch bridge that carries State Route 28 over the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne, Massachusetts. Completed in 1935, it carries four narrow lanes of traffic across with a scant sidewalk for pedestrians and cyclists. Now nearing a century of service that has led to steady structural deterioration, along with its narrow lanes that lead to miles-long backups in the summer months, the Bourne Bridge is slated for replacement with twin arch spans as part of the broader Cape Cod Bridges Program.

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