Nobody is making a big deal of the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Albany railroad bridge across the Willamette River. That’s fitting, because when it was accomplished in 1921, the job made no splash in the papers of the time.
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Tags: 100-year-old bridge, 1921, Albany Democrat, Albany Evening Herald, Albany railroad bridge, Southern Pacific
Tags: 100-year-old bridge, 1921, Albany Democrat, Albany Evening Herald, Albany railroad bridge, Southern Pacific
How old are those piers? Now we know
In case you were wondering about this, as unlikely as that is, the piers of the Albany railroad bridge on the Willamette River are even older than the bridge itself, but only by one year.
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