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Steel bridge photo gallery

Bridges we have built, in the places they were built for. These are photographs of real crossings rather than renders, which is why some of them have flood debris and an excavator in the frame.

A photograph shows one bridge in one configuration. It is not a specification, and what your crossing will carry is settled in the engineered configuration for your site.

A steel bridge with a horizontal railing carrying a path over a rocky stream and small waterfall on a golf course, with red sandstone cliffs on the skyline behind.
Red rock on the skyline. Location not on record.

In service

Bridges being used for what they were bought for. The machine crossing is named; the bridge under it is not, because the model and configuration in these frames are not on record.

  • A black pickup truck stopped partway across a steel truss bridge over a grassed drainage channel, in open pasture with trees behind.
    A pickup stopped partway across.
  • A red tractor with a front loader crossing a black steel truss bridge over a still pond, seen from above, in a green pasture.
    A tractor and front loader, over a pond.
  • A green utility vehicle crossing a flat bolt-together bridge seated on block abutments over a freshly cut channel, with bare earth either side and dry hills behind.
    A UTV on a kit, with the excavation still open.
  • A course maintenance vehicle with a driver crossing a flat steel bridge with a horizontal railing over a stream on a golf course, under a pink and grey evening sky.
    A course maintenance vehicle, last run of the day.

Where they end up

Finished crossings, in the country they were built for. Two of these are a long way from Texas and the record does not say where.

  • A steel bridge with a horizontal railing carrying a path over a rocky stream and small waterfall on a golf course, with red sandstone cliffs on the skyline behind.
    Red rock on the skyline. Location not on record.
  • A slender steel truss bridge spanning a still creek in a green pasture, with a timber deck rail in the near foreground and mountains along the horizon.
    A pasture creek under mountains.
  • A black steel truss bridge crossing a still pond onto a concrete abutment, with yellow autumn cottonwoods and dry hills behind.
    Open water and autumn cottonwoods.
  • A black arched steel bridge with horizontal railings set on a bed of pale river rock, with red barns and a white rail fence behind it.
    An arched span on a dry rock bed, barns behind.
  • A long black bridge with a horizontal railing seen along its length, crossing a creek between poured concrete abutments in winter scrub.
    A long span in elevation, on poured abutments.
  • Two workers in hard hats and high visibility vests standing either side of a finished bridge deck, looking along it toward a road and houses.
    Crew on the deck at handover.
  • A black steel bridge with a timber deck and a low rail along each side, crossing a narrow creek on a golf course, with a pond, red earth and desert houses under a clear blue sky behind.
    A kit over a golf course creek, red earth behind.
  • A timber-decked steel bridge with a low side rail crossing a wooded creek into a sunlit meadow, with a second bridge visible in the grass beyond.
    Two crossings on one property, in summer.
  • A black steel truss bridge with horizontal bars between its diagonals and a stained timber deck, seated on a new concrete footing at the edge of dense woodland.
    New, on its footing at the edge of the woods.
  • A short black steel truss bridge with a stained timber deck carrying a concrete path across a grassy drainage swale in a park, under a clear sky.
    A park path, carried across a swale.

The Utility Truss, by name

Three frames whose filenames name the bridge. Everywhere else on this page a finished span is just a crossing, because the record does not say which family it is; these three it does.

Utility bridges
  • A black steel bridge with low truss sides and a stained timber deck set across a dry creek bed, in brush under bare autumn trees.
    An 8 by 40 with a 24 inch truss, newly set.
  • Looking down the length of a long black steel truss bridge with a timber deck, standing on blocks on the grass beside a drive, with trees and a clear sky beyond.
    An 8 by 40, on blocks outside the shop.
  • A short black steel truss bridge with a timber deck standing on timber blocks beside a curb, with a cast maker's plate on its side, under a tall tree and a clear sky.
    A 10 by 20. The cast plate reads 8 ton.

The Cowboy, in raw steel

The Kit without the powder-coat step. Until today the site said in writing that it had no photograph of a raw steel bridge; these are what it had instead. What none of them carries is a date, so they show what raw steel looks like and not how long it took.

Raw steel or powder-coated bridges
  • A cast steel plate on the side of a bridge reading four ton, load limit two tons per axle, The Cowboy, Roadrunner Bridge, Made in the U.S.A., with a roadrunner mark beside the text, weathered to a grey green, timber decking above and grass below.
    The cast plate on one Cowboy, weathered.
  • A green utility vehicle parked on a raw steel bridge with timber decking and a low bump rail, on a dirt track in open woodland.
    The same product working, out on a track.
  • The deck of a raw steel bridge in a workshop, dark stained timber boards bolted down between steel bump rails, with an arched truss standing behind it.
    And one decked in the shop, before it has been outside.
  • An uncoated steel bridge kit frame on shop trolleys, bare grey steel with a low bump rail down each side and no decking fitted.
    An uncoated frame with a bump rail.
  • An uncoated steel bridge kit frame on shop trolleys with a full height handrail down one side, a worker steadying the far end.
    The same finish with a full handrail.

In the shop

Greenville, Texas. Everything on this page was cut, welded, coated and decked here before it went anywhere, including the two options the rest of the site names and has never been able to show you.

How bridges ship
  • A steel bridge frame on stands in a fabrication shop, with welders working at benches and a forklift alongside.
    A frame under fabrication.
  • A man standing upright underneath a bridge span held on stands in a workshop, the deck passing well above his head.
    A span on stands, with someone under it for scale.
  • Bridge components wrapped and staged on a workshop floor, steel sections in plastic with stacked timber decking on racks behind.
    Steel and decking staged before assembly.
  • An arched bridge standing complete inside a workshop showroom, its deck and horizontal railing following the curve of the rolled beam beneath it.
    An arch, complete indoors. The camber is rolled into the beam.
  • A long black arched steel truss span resting on timber blocks on the grass beside a concrete yard, under a spreading tree.
    An arched truss span, finished, on blocks outside.
  • A close view of the bolted corner of a bridge kit, where the handrail post meets the deck beam through a bolted plate.
    One bolted joint. This is what assembles on site.
  • A bolt-together bridge standing on four adjustable steel legs on a concrete yard, with the shop and other bridges behind it.
    The adjustable leg kit, for uneven ground.
  • A decked bridge in a workshop fitted with a handrail of closely spaced horizontal steel bars, seen end on.
    The ADA-oriented horizontal handrail.
  • A bolt-together bridge kit stacked and banded flat for shipping.
    A kit banded flat for freight.
  • An eight foot by twenty foot bolt-together bridge kit, powder coated with timber decking fitted.
    Or bolted up, coated and decked before it ships.

Going in

Site preparation through the set, in order, and the thing that decides all of it. Photographs of both banks are what the quote form asks for, and the last frame here is what it is asking about.

How installation goes
  • Timber formwork and pink rebar set in an excavated trench for a bridge abutment, in bare winter woodland.
    Abutment formwork and reinforcement, before the pour.
  • A steel truss bridge strapped to a gooseneck trailer, rigged with slings to an excavator, with two crew members standing on the deck.
    The span rigged off the trailer.
  • An excavator holding a steel truss bridge suspended on slings above graded ground, ready to place.
    Carried on slings to the abutments.
  • A steel bridge span hanging from a crane's slings high against a blue sky, in silhouette, with trees in the foreground and the sun flaring behind.
    Or picked by crane, span in the air.
  • A finished steel trail bridge with timber decking and truss railing, seated on a poured concrete abutment, with a gravel path continuing beyond it.
    Seated, decked and railed.
  • A poured concrete abutment in close foreground with fresh dark earth banked against it, the bridge it carries running away behind.
    A finished abutment, close up.

Greenville, Texas

The Parks and Recreation crossing, a mile or so from the shop that built it.

  • A black steel truss bridge carrying a concrete path across a grassed swale in a park, with houses beyond the treeline.
    The span carrying the park path.
  • A circular steel medallion set into a bridge truss, cut with the outline of Texas and a letter G, painted green and blue against the black steel.
    Their artwork, cut into the truss.

Sapulpa, Oklahoma

A new crossing that could carry public access through the park without competing with the landmark the park exists for. It had to sit naturally in the site, stay out of the way of a structure that has stood for nearly a century, and not read as an afterthought placed beside a piece of history.

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  • A wide view of the park with the black arched pedestrian bridge on the left, a Route 66 shield sign at the centre, and the weathered steel of the historic through-truss bridge on the right.
    Two eras of bridge building, side by side.
  • The park entrance, with carved stone signs reading Historic Route 66 and Bridge #18 Plaza either side of a brick walkway leading toward the historic truss.
    The park entrance and its signage.
  • The arched pedestrian bridge seen across the park, with a brick plaza wall and an orange and yellow shade sail in the foreground.
    The crossing from the plaza side.
  • A new arched steel bridge with black railings on concrete abutments over a rock-lined swale, with the rusted truss of a historic highway bridge rising behind it.
    The new span, with Bridge 18 rising behind it.

Poga, Tennessee

Hurricane Helene flooding took out Poga Bridge 2. The crossing it carried was the way people reached homes, neighbors, supplies and emergency services, and without it a small community was split in two.

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  • A flood-scoured creek valley with uprooted trees and broken timber piled along the bank, an excavator working the far side, and a damaged crossing in the middle distance.
    What the flooding left behind.
  • An orange excavator cutting into a steep earth bank beside a creek, with a second excavator working behind it.
    Cutting the approach back to grade.
  • A flatbed trailer and a tracked loader on a cut earth approach above a creek, with the new bridge in place below and vehicles on the road beyond.
    The delivery trailer on the new approach.
  • Looking along the timber deck of the installed bridge toward the far bank, where several people stand talking beside an excavator.
    The finished deck, looking across to the far bank.
  • A black steel truss bridge seen side on across a rocky creek, seated on stone abutments, in bare winter woodland.
    The span on its abutments.
  • A wide view of a mountain river after the flood, with uprooted trees heaped against the stranded concrete abutment of the lost bridge and the new steel truss crossing in the distance at left.
    The old crossing's abutment in the debris, and the new span beyond it.

Yours would be the next one

Tell us the span, what has to get across it, and what the banks look like. Photographs of both sides are usually enough to start.

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