I've always loved old steel truss bridges, and we've got three of them crossing the Mississippi River here at Memphis. This was my view of them yesterday, when the river was flowing at about 36.9 feet on the Memphis gauge.
There are plans to build a new bridge that will replace the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge as the route of Interstate 55. Construction is supposed to begin next year. It needs to be done: the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge predates the Interstate system and has never met the specs for an Interstate highway. And I expect the new bridge will be an impressive feat of engineering. But will it have the character of those steel-truss spans of the 19th and early 20th centuries? It could, but I'll believe it when I see it.
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