Route 66 Crossings: Historic Bridges of the Mother Road

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Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century The us. But until now, no book has focused at the bridges that spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago and Santa Monica. On this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and veteran author and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of The us’s most famous highway, structures designed to conquer stumbling blocks to trip, many of them engineered with architectural aesthetics now lost to time.

Featuring hundreds of Ross’s own photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases bridges ranging in design from timber to steel and concrete, and provides schematics, maps, and global coordinates to lend a hand readers identify and locate them. Ross’s comprehensive accounting of structures along the Mother Road’s more than a few alignments includes bridges still in use, those who have vanished or have been abandoned, and the few consciously preserved as monuments. He also recognizes ancillary structures that enhanced safety and helped facilitate traffic, such as railway grade separations, tunnels, and pedestrian underpasses.

Ross seeks to encourage ongoing preservation of the structures that remain. In brilliant color and precise detail, Route 66 Crossings expands our knowledge of the bridges that linked The us’s first all-weather national highway.

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