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Twenty-first Street Bridge, Spanning Railroad tracks at Twenty-first Street, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO

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Significance: The Twenty-First Street Bridge is a 1,272-foot-long through Parker truss and through Pony truss featuring pineapple finials atop its portals. It is a little-altered surviving example of a late 19th century steel truss bridge. Bridges of this age are rare in Missouri.

Survey number: HAER MO-11

Building/structure dates: 1892 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1976

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steel truss bridges civil engineering bridge construction railroad companies vehicular bridges pedestrian bridges twenty first bridge twenty first street bridge railroad twenty first street saint louis st louis missouri carl gayler historic american engineering record ruckert stifel photo ultra high resolution high resolution industrial history library of congress railway photo archive
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1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Gayler , Carl
Stifel
Ruckert
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States ,  37.96425, -91.83183
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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steel truss bridges civil engineering bridge construction railroad companies vehicular bridges pedestrian bridges twenty first bridge twenty first street bridge railroad twenty first street saint louis st louis missouri carl gayler historic american engineering record ruckert stifel photo ultra high resolution high resolution industrial history library of congress railway photo archive