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Bridges gone Bad (Tap to read)

6/29/2022

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The Idaho Transportation Department has released thousands of digitized photos from their files for the public’s enjoyment. In looking at the database recently, I decided to pull together a little series of bridges gone bad.

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This is an old bridge at Cataldo, circa 1910. It shows the distorted trusses and the temporary  braces put in place to stave off a complete collapse. It’s doubtful there is any remnant of this old bridge today.
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This is the collapse of the Parma Bridge. It looks to me like it was probably 1950s, by the way the men are dressed.
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Some of the photos are more recent. This is an overpass across I-84 near Burley after a truck crashed into a support in 1988.
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Perhaps the most dramatic bridge collapse in the ITD files is this one, which caught a Union Pacific Bus as it tried to cross. This may have been a bridge across the Bear River. Does anyone have any information about this incident?
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