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Thanks to Les Hale for providing this photo of the bridge in its original location.
The Ionia County Road Commission had this photo on their website showing the bridge in its original location.
This is the photo from MDOT's website, showing the bridge being moved off of its original location, to be disassembled and repaired.
This group of photos, from Fall 2005 shows the reproduction floor beams laid out at the park.
This group of photos, from February 2006 shows the completed flooring system, and also shows the pieces of the original bridge that will eventually be assembled back into a bridge!
These are the top chord beams.
View of the flooring system.
Turnbuckle under the deck.
Sway bracing is on the top of this pile; the bottom half of the portal bracing is on the bottom.
The two wider lattice beams on the left are what make up the top half of the portal bracing.
Detail of sway bracing.
Note how the scrap carpet protects the pieces from scratching each other.
Eyebars for the bridge. These are the punched variety.
These stampings appear to be new, put on to keep all the pieces sorted.
These are the vertical members of the bridge.
These parts make up the endpost portion of the top chord.
Its hard to see, but their is a 34 to the right of the middle of the bottom turnbuckle... unlike the stampings I found, I am pretty sure this is original, since it has a raised texture.
Lightweight loop-forged eyebar.
Pile of rods.
This group of photos, from August 2006 shows part of the trusses erected.
Note the little dimple right in the center of the eye bar. This is supposedly a remnant of a test that was done on the iron after being fabricated. For these to still be visible after all these years is quite amazing.
