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Beauty of Railroad Bridges in North America Then and Now by Richard Cook w/ DJ
The Beauty of Railroad Bridges in North America Then and Now by Richard Cook .
Hard Cover with dust jacket.
Golden West Books.
Copyright 1987. Fifth printing 1999
More than 300 illustrations, plans, documentary reproductions, index. 208 pages. Includes stone, Eads Bridge, Truss, Arch bridges, bridges that move, Trestles, Girders, concrete, new bridges for old, Kate Shelley, bridge Plans, more.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1 - Bridge Types
Chapter 2 - Monuments in Stone
Chapter 3 - It Started With a Kite
Chapter 4 - The Eads Bridge
Chapter 5 - The Truss: Geometry at Work
Chapter 6 - Those Beautiful Arch Bridges
Chapter 7 - Bridges That Move
Chapter 8 - Bridges on Stilts: Trestles and Girders
Chapter 9 - Concrete Bridges
Chapter 10 - Kate Shelley
Chapter 11 - New Bridges for Old
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
Bridge Plans
Foreword
This volume was designed for those who, like the author, find bridges a fascinating subject, especially when those bridges carry railroads. This is a book for laymen, written by a non-professional who loves trains and all things connected with the subject, such as bridges, and who does not profess to know that much about their engineering.
Rather, this is a book which, I hope, will celebrate the beauty of railroad bridges and their ability to combine that symmetry with a necessary practicability: the movement of the restless train.
Today, few railroad bridges are being erected, just as few railroads are being built. When a modern railroad bridge is constructed, it is usually not a major bridge, but rather a steel deck girder span or a concrete structure, often not particularly a thing of beauty.
The building of our major railway bridges coincided with the development of the railways themselves. Early major bridges were erected quickly and they were succeeded by great steel spans, truss or steel arch type or, in a few cases, by great, yet graceful, concrete structures. A few magnificent stone bridges, built so solidly in those early years, have survived and are still in use today, requiring little reinforcing. They have performed a noble service and historians have sometimes neglected to recognize their value to mankind.
This, then, is a pictorial salute to the designers and builders of these beautiful utilitarian and often monumental railroad engineering structures.
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