Source: Vernon Mesler Collection Going back to the collection of fellow pontist Vernon Mesler, we have this bridge in Corvallis, Oregon, whose features matches that of the (now extant) Van Buren Street Bridge. The postcard dates to 1917, four years after the completion of the combination swing span with a fixed span as approach. The bridge was built in 1913 by the Coast Bridge Company and had a total length of 708 feet.

The last bridge on the photo tour is the one I saved for last- literally! It's one of the most popular structures in Frankfurt and one that can be seen in nine out of ten postcards, let alone in many books on bridges and Frankfurt itself. The bridge is so popular that one can even find lovelocks on there, although I would not recommend doing that for reasons of compromising the structure's integrity and safety.

Skinny Bridge: One of the more popular of Amsterdam's bridges. Source: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons When I think of Amsterdam, the capital and largest city in the Netherlands, this bridge is one of the first structures that come to mind. The Skinny Bridge is one of the most popular of the city's bridges. It is so popular that one will find it on much of the merchandise and some websites- even the postcards, as I have two dozen of the structure, but from different angles and also time period.

Photo by Michau0142 Ludwiczak on Pexels.com Each website and group has its own way of recognizing successes and failures. The Bridgehunter’s Chronicles has its own award, known as the Bridgeh…

In the previous post, I showed you the postcard of the Untermainbrücke in its original form from 1872-4. To view its history up to World War II, you can click on the window below: This post is the second part in the story behind the Untermainbrücke. Due to increasing traffic combined with structural concerns because of its reconstruction, the city council approved a plan to reconstruct the entire structure in 1988.

Flößerbrücke spanning the River Main with Frankfurt's skyline. Photo taken in October 2025 while on a night boat tour This tour guide shows you the bridges and dams that you can find in Frankfurt, Germany. Located on the River Main, the metropolis of 700,000 is the financial district of Germany and the European Union. It is also the central hub for air transport in the region.

Postcard. Public Domain For the first time in a month, we are back to featuring Postcards on Friday. And this postcard feature is in connection with another bridge we are featuring in the series on the bridges in Frankfurt. Frankfurt has produced many postcards of the finest bridges. This one however is a rare gem that has a history of its own.

Historic Truss Bridge in Rural Baltimore County, Maryland. This is a very old example of a Pratt truss bridge and built by a company of which few examples remain.

A truck driver says he has been “cleared of all fault” after the collapse of a historic bridge in Maryland earlier this week.

The near $40 million restoration of an historic bridge, connecting the Central Coast to Sydney, is n

The Princeton Railroad Museum is displaying plaques removed from the Thorn Street Bridge, a structure headed for demolition.

The crossing was used after a battle against Russia in 1792.

Another one of Edmonton’s historic bridges is about to undergo rehabilitation, and drivers can expect a few minor slowdowns this winter.

Powick Old Bridge, which played a vital part during the English Civil Wars, has now been added to Historic England's 2025 Heritage at Risk Register.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration Central Federal Lands Highway Division, will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, to discus...

For more than a century, the 1914 St. Louis Bridge carried goods, grain trucks, and families across the South Saskatchewan River. When the new Highway 2 bridge opened east of town, traffic stopped, an...

Hidden in plain sight. The city of Austin and the Shoal Creek Conservancy is shining new light on an historic bridge in downtown Austin.

The next bridge in the series on Frankfurt takes us to this bridge. From my perspective, the bridge serves as a perfect spot for a photo opportunity taken in the day time as well as night. Slide the photos above to see the difference. 🙂 The bridge we are presenting is the oldest known structure in the city, the Alte Brücke.

Source: Highest Bridges.com Motorway Bridge Collapses due to Landslide, months after its opening. No Casualties SICHUAN, CHINA- Mother nature and potential design flaws contributed to a collapse of one of the highest motorway viaducts in southwestern China early Tuesday morning. The Hongqui Viaduct was a 760-meter long box girder viaduct that spanned a reservoir carrying the Sichuan-Tibet Highway near Mearkang. The viaduct was completed earlier this year by the Sichuan Road and Bridge Group, a consortium of bridge builders and construction firms responsible for the bridge and the road that was supposed to provide quicker and safer passage to the Tibetian Plateau.

Ponte de Maria Pia. Photo taken by Joseolgon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As a follow-up to yesterday's guest post on the Dom Luis I Bridge, we have the rest of the bridges one has to see while visiting the second largest city in Portugal. Porto has over 252,000 inhabitants, but its metro area has 1.8 million. It's located in the northern part of the country, where the Duoro RIver empties into the Atlantic Ocean, yet the river is known for its steep cliffs, which cuts the historic city into two, with buildings being located both at the bottom and at the top of the cliffs.

As a bonus, there is a walking tour video and a video on its history and other interesting features:

The council says it has put a bid in for National Lottery funding but that could take years.