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The Frith Road Bridge is gone here forever. What you see in this picture being built does not deserve the name "bridge"; rather I refer to such structures as slabs of concrete. It will be an ugly eyesore for decades to come... but I doubt it will last as long as the Frith Road Bridge did!
This pile of steel is the Frith Road Bridge. It doesn't look like a lot of steel when it is all in a neat set of piles. In this photo, the portal bracing is stacked up in the front.
Frith Road Bridge in pieces.
Bracing rods.
One of the bridge feet. These always deteriorate the worst, and Frith Road's were no exception.
The eyebars were in decent shape. I was not sure how much steel had rusted away until I saw these... I had expected them to look a lot worse.
A stack of looped eyebars, some of which form the bottom chord of the bridge.
Note some deterioration but not too much.
The portal bracing had rusted severely where it was connected to the endpost.
Various rods.
The rest of the bridge feet; these were all in bad shape.
These are the vertical members.
This is the sway bracing.
The sway bracing was in great shape.
For some reason they left this foot and pin in place.
These are the main i-beams for the bridge. They were in good shape overall, except where they connected to the verticals. These seem to have been what were shedding so must rust on the lower chord connections on the bridge.
These little tags marked each piece of the bridge, so that when it is reassembled everything will be in the correct order.
This metal was paper thin. This iks part of the top chord.
Note how thin the metal had gotten here.
Note the bent bracing rods... bracing rods are always in bad shape because they are small.
The seeds of ugliness... reinforcing rods.
This is all that remains of the steel of the west caisson.
This is all that remains of the steel of the west caisson.
This is the concrete that had been sealed inside the caisson since the bridge was built.
This is the concrete that had been sealed inside the caisson since the bridge was built.
The steel can be see to the right.
This last section of Frith in Pieces documents the next stage for the bridge, as it is stored at the St. Clair County Road Commission until the restoration begins.
