The historic Joppa Iron Truss Bridge in Burnet County was washed away by catastrophic flooding in Central Texas on Friday.

A USTIN (KXAN) – Flooding along the San Gabriel River Saturday morning swept away a historic bridge in Burnet County. Video ...

Community officials and local leaders held a ribbon cutting ceremony and officially reopened a new single lane, steel-truss ...

NEW BEDFORD — It was in the 1950s and '60s that engineers began to steer clear of truss bridges of the sort that collapsed in Minneapolis last week.

A truss bridge is a triangular assembly of members that act principally in tension or compression, Gasparini said. The design creates a very rigid structure that transfers the load to a wide area.

The newly opened historic Bell Ford Bridge can be accessed at Geist Park, 10979 Florida Rd., a 17-acre county park next to ...

The bridge featured a truss design, despite the cosmetic appearance of a central tower and cables typical of a suspension bridge. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages ...

If the truss design of the Checkered House Bridge in Richmond, finished in 1929 for $81,000, represented a pinnacle of sorts in bridge design, it also marked an ending.

The bridge is one of the "truly important early metal truss bridges in the United States," according to a consultant's reports.The rural bridge, built in 1878, "easily ranks among the top 25 early ...

Truss bridges were a popular choice of bridge designers in the U.S. from the 1870s through the 1930s. One variety of truss bridge played an important role in World War II.