the last steel truss bridge in the Wyoming, 115 years old, was officially retired last week, it once provided thousands of miners and tons of coal a passageway across the Tongue River northeast of Sheridan.
it led to one of the state’s most important and largest underground coal mines during the early decades of the last century.
the visual aesthetics of the bridge and its history have led to an effort to preserve it on land adjacent to the river.
In addition to a vehicle side of the bridge, there also a small railroad trestle side as well laid with mine car tracks that allowed the company to take coal across the river to the tipple and into the railroad cars.
the bridge is amazing in that it never was put on on the national historic registry as many others were and now are gone, but this bridge functioned until the day the temporary bridge was put in place.
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