I’m at a conference at Texas A&M. College Station, excluding the very large campus, is basically a wide spot on a wide-open prairie.
All HABS could offer me was a 1914 warren pony truss, which is the structural engineering equivalent of lukewarm porridge. As for the notes, “gracile” my ass.
The abutment on the left side of the picture is vaguely amusing.
All of a sudden I can’t engorge your photos, but am offered the option of downloading them. Is this your fault?
Most of the large HABS pix are TIFFs. That’s probably the issue.
As I suspected.
My hometown has a pony truss bridge. Mrs. Willy grew up in a house a block away.
Tivoli Island (to which the bridge leads) was once a gem of a park filled with wondrous structures. That was long before I came along to piss in the bushes and wonder what stood on all those crumbling foundations. A little work on teh google will find the sad history of this isle and the town that forsook it, I’m not up to telling the tale myself.
I have a photo regret about Texas. On the last road trip I should have stopped because there was a flat plain of endless grain stubble lit white by a setting sun from behind me. There was one cow standing still in the field against enormous threatening black storm clouds. That may have been the only striking thing I have ever seen in Texas. Apart from what I saw when I took all that speed that one time.