Times News By Calvin Sneed
January 23, 2022
“Bridging Time” — a monthly series featuring photos by Calvin Sneed — highlights steel truss and concrete arch bridges throughout the United States. During his travels, Calvin has taken more than 30,000 photos of 900 or more bridges (mostly in the Southeast).
This month’s featured bridges are the Thomas Bridge in Sullivan County, Tennessee, and the Bridgeport Bridge, on the Caddo-Canadian County line, near Hinton, Oklahoma.
The Thomas Bridge
The Thomas Bridge is one of the oldest highway steel truss bridges still standing in upper East Tennessee. Built in 1898 by the New Columbus Bridge Company of Columbus, Ohio, the Thomas Bridge crossing Beaver Creek in Sullivan County is a single-lane, Pratt steel through truss.
It sits on two masonry abutments on either end. The span has pin-connected "eye bars" for stability (common to that time period) and is 171 feet long. The truss span also has decorative lace portals at either end.
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