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On this date in 1932, the George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge officially opened in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A newspaper account at the time characterized the bridge as “the most recent link in Pennsylvania’s maze of beautiful highways.”
Construction of the bridge began in 1929. The bridge was named for engineer and electrical industry pioneer George Westinghouse. His Westinghouse Electric...
In Part 1 of this article, it was noted that there are more than 617,000 bridges in the United States. Of those, more than 46,000 are rated as “structurally deficient.” In Part 2 of FreightWaves Classics: Fix U.S. bridges!, several of the more high-profile bridge collapses are outlined.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge – 1940
The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in 1940. It had been built to span the Tacoma Narrows strait of...
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