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| See I learn something new every day. I know geometry but not much about structural engineering, so I saw an arch and figured it was an arch bridge. But now I have been inlightened, cool. jt (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Mighty Mac... (URL) (I've posted links to it in the past I think) (...) bridges that look like it in shape (with the inward sloping cantilever towers) or in expanse and it was a ground breaker in its day. My hero, D. B. Steinman, (1) took a (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) If we are talking bridge spotting, I'll be crossing this (road) one today: (URL) I cross it, I'll be looking at this (rail) one: (URL) picture: (URL) are about 8 miles from my office. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| I'm not a civil, thanks for refining my critique. (...) Oh, indeed, it looks nifty. It's just not an arch. I'm not competent to comment on whether trusses can't be pinned, though. While we are identifying arches, though, I thought Ben "April Fool" (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) I was going to leave this, but now that you started... I agree that is not a arch, and I expect that is was modelled on a truss. However, I'd call it a frame as it is pin jointed (trusses, I think are not). However, to be a frame all the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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