The Portland Bridge Book

The Portland Bridge Book.

By:  Sharon Wood Wortman with Ed Wortman.  Photography by James Norman.

$24.95

ISBN:   9780978736514

Availability: Out-of-Print.  Store has one new copy.  

Published:  Urban Adventure Press, 2006. 

The big river bridges of Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington profiled
with photographs and drawings from the Historic American
Engineering Study of the Willamette River Bridges for the National
Park Service/Library of Congress in 1999. Includes poetry, maps, chapter
on “How and Why Bridges are Built” (by Ed Wortman), glossary,
Portland Transportation History Timeline, with emphasis on construction
of the WRBs, many illustrations and drawings, and stories. For example,
where exactly the Fremont Bridge—the longest tied-arch bridge on
this side of the world—cracked during construction.