A Bridge Worth Saving: A Community Guide to Historic Bridge Preservation | 
| Author: Mike Mort
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr
Category: Book
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Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0870138286
Dewey Decimal Number: 624.20288
EAN: 9780870138287
ASIN: 0870138286
Publication Date: April 19, 2008
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Riveting! For Railroad and steam engine historians, model railroaders, and historic preservationists:
Everything you need to know to save an old bridge, with 41 Photographs, appendices, bridge-type diagrams, and an index. A Bridge Worth Saving is a call to action. Everything about this book its structure, its content, its style shouts SAVE THAT OLD BRIDGE; Unlike some calls to action that leave their readers at the starting line, this book shows the layperson and the professional, in a step-by-step way, how to save an old metal-truss bridge. Use it as a tool kit, a map, a handbook, or an operations manual. A Bridge Worth Saving can help a community actually save a bridge.
The chapters are full of practical things to know or do. Sometimes this advice is offered in essay form. More often it is presented as to-do lists. In fact, the book begins with a comprehensive checklist of everything you need to know before you get started on saving a bridge. It's all here. There are even job descriptions for volunteers and interview questions for professionals who will need to be brought into the process. Useful case studies abound.
An appendix of truss-bridge types gives prospective bridge-savers a useful starting point, and forty-one photographs give them a vision of the goal. All of the advice has been sifted through the experiences and insights of people who have actually gone through the process of saving old bridges. It is for these front-line leaders that this book has been written. It is also for the small group of citizens who simply cannot bear the thought of losing the old bridge that has served their community for as long as they can remember. It is about paint, rust, metal fatigue, eye-bars, and rivets. It is also about volunteers, fundraising, liability, and finally, it is even about the meaning of life. A Bridge Worth Saving is for the pessimist who is sure it can't be done and the optimist who just needs to learn how.
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A complete and comprehensive instructional guide to bridge restoration August 10, 2008
Bridges can be more to people than simply a method of crossing water without a boat. "A Bridge Worth Saving" is a thoroughly 'user friendly' guide for activists wanting to save historical landmarks they deem worth the effort and expense to campaign for their preservation. Filled from cover to cover with practical advice for keeping an old bridge in tip top condition, "A Bridge Worth Saving" is a complete and comprehensive instructional guide to bridge restoration, enhanced with an index and appendixes. Highly recommended for personal, professional, academic, and community library collections.
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