Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Civil Engineering Works Photograph Collection
Item
Identifier: SC Photo-0020
Abstract
The collection of photographs illustrate various types of civil engineering works including the Whipple through truss railroad bridge, Pennsylvania through truss bridge, suspension bridges, cantilever bridges, reinforced concrete arch bridges and buttress dams. Among the bridge photographs are included the Brooklyn Bridge, the Firth of Forth Bridge, the Tay Bridge and Niagara Falls “Honeymoon” Bridge collapses, the Pecos River railroad trestle bridge and the “Luten Design” reinforced...
Dates:
1879-1984; Majority of material found within 1879-1984
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Wax Lake Bridge Construction Photographs 1940-1941
Collection — Box PHOTO 0009.01
Identifier: SC Photo-0009
Abstract
A collection of construction photographs of a steel railroad bridge erected on a dry flat plain which eventually became a Mississippi River floodway channel. The channel beneath the bridge elements was dredged after the bridge was constructed. This construction procedure was in reverse of the usual building process. Construction by Bethlehem Steel began in late 1940 and completed in early 1941. The reverse building process was unusual at the time. The bridge is also known as the Wax Lake...
Dates:
1940-1941
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Adams County (Ohio) 1
- American River Bridge, California 1
- Beasley Fork Bridge, Ohio 1
- Belleair (Fla.) 1
- Belleview Bridge, Belleair, Florida 1
- Blair Bridge, Montgomery County, Maryland 1
- Bridges 1
- Brooklyn Bridge (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Calumet Bridge 1
- Cemetery Bridge, Benton Harbor, Michigan 1
- Cicott Street Bridge, Logansport, Indiana 1
- Civil engineering 1
- Civil engineers 1
- Dams 1
- Flood control -- Mississippi River 1
- Forth Bridge (South Queensferry, Scotland : Railroad bridge) 1
- Island Park Bridge, Winfield, Kansas 1
- James River Bridge, Virginia 1
- Maumee River Bridge, Waterville, Ohio 1
- Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge (Ariz. and Nev.) 1
- Morganza (La.) 1
- Pecos River Bridge 1
- Pecos River High Bridge, Texas 1
- Photographs 1
- Reinforced Concrete 1
- Saskatchewan River Bridge, Saskatoon, Canada 1
- Shawnee Bridge, Piqua, Ohio 1
- Tay Bridge (Dundee, Scotland : Railroad bridge) 1
- Tellicoe River Bridge, Vonore, Tennessee 1
- Wabash River Bridge, Georgetown, Indiana 1
- Wax Lake Bridge 1
- Wax Lake Outlet Railway Bridge 1
- West Washington Street Bridge, Indianapolis, Indiana 1 + ∧ less
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