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High Steel Bridge

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Design
  
Opened
  
1929

Bridge type
  
Truss arch bridge

Height
  
130 m

Total length
  
209 m

Body of water
  
High Steel Bridge

Carries
  
Passenger vehicles and logging trucks

Crosses
  
South fork, Skokomish River

Official name
  
Forest Service Road 2202

Address
  
NF-2340, Shelton, WA 98584, USA

Similar
  
Vance Creek Bridge, Vance Creek Viaduct, Lake Cushman, Mount Ellinor, Cushman No 1 Hydroele

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High Steel Bridge is a truss arch bridge that spans the south fork of the Skokomish River on Forest Service road #2202 near the city of Shelton, Washington in Mason County, Washington. The High Steel Bridge was the second of two large steel arches to be erected by the Simpson Logging Company on Forest Service land in 1929. These bridges carried a single railroad track across formidable chasms opening up expansive tracts of previously inaccessible timber on the Olympic Peninsula.

The High Steel Bridge's 685 ft (209 m) steel riveted webbed arch rises 375 ft (114 m) above the Skokomish River's South Fork. The building materials—which included a considerable amount of concrete for the footings, lumber for the decking, concrete forms, and railings, and 750 tons of steel—were hauled by rail across the recently completed Vance Creek Bridge.

The American Bridge Company, a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Products Company at the time of construction, was the contractor for the $131,000 structure. The Simpson Logging Company spent an additional $100,000 in lumber in the construction of the bridge. The total cost of the bridge was paid from the proceeds of timber subsequently hauled across it.

References

High Steel Bridge Wikipedia


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