I think this week we should look for pictures of the bridges of New Orleans, there seemed to be some pretty spectacular ones.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

I just read its story in an article a few months ago. Sorry, no on-line images for the previous bridge states, just the story.

In 1897, the first bridge on its place was erected, with a typical Hungarian fishbelly central span (i.e. an iron trestle with an inverted arch on the underside as stiffener) of 102 m.

End of August 1916, the Austro-Hungarian and allied German troops at the Easter front were retreating, and a Bavarian railway engineering corps blew the central span off one pillar.

However, by November the same year, the area was reconquered again. This time Austrian railway pioneers came, and built a 'temporary' central span: a simple girder bridge, but with a giant girder pillar on one side shortening the span. This bridge survived the next change of fortunes, and was maintained first by Romania, then (after Hitler 'granted' his Hungarian ally half of Transsylvania back in 1940, and the then Romanian ally accepted) by Hungary, and blown up again by retreating German troops in 1944.

The current bridge is from 1946.

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