Truss Bridge - Yellowstone River

Fallon, Montana

Truss Bridge - 24 October 2009. Drove over to Glendive from Miles City, MT – doubling back once to shoot a truss bridge over the Yellowstone River just east of Fallon, MT. I have since Googled the bridge and discovered that some other folks are as impressed with it as myself – trying to get it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

http://www.his.state.mt.us/shpo/register/YlwstnRvrBridge.pdf

“The Yellowstone River Bridge near the community of Fallon is a 2-span riveted continuous steel Warren through truss. The bridge is 1,142-feet in length and 29.9-feet wide and rests on three concrete piers. Built between 1943 and 1944, the bridge was one of only a very few major bridge projects undertaken by the Montana Highway Department during World War II. The bridge is a component of US Highway 10, a highway deemed strategically important to the nation’s defense during the war. It is the most massive continuous span through truss built by the highway department and one of the last truss bridges built by it. The bridge is distinguished by its long, massive spans rising above the eastern Montana prairie.”

Leica IIIc w/15mm F:4.5 Voigtlander – 1/200th sec at F:16. Double click on the image.