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BRIDGES

General Bridge & Bridge Construction Resources

 
Bridge Automation web site Gallery
 
Bridge Basics (Brantacan)
Bridge Construction and Engineering Home (Bridgepros)
Bridge Engineering Page (Mark Ketchum)
Bridges (Dave Deneberg)
Concrete Bridge Overview (Portland Cement Association)
Digital Bridges (LeHigh Universities)
Godden Structureal Engineering Slide Library (UC Berkeley N.I.S.E.E.)
Leonhardt, Andra & Partners Structures Slide Library (UC Berkeley N.I.S.E.E)
Inventory of North American Suspension Bridges (Dave Denenberg)
Major Bridge Statistics (organized by bridge type)
Prestressed Concrete Bridges (Brantacan) Prestressed Concrete Bridges (TRB publication)
Rice University Bridge Project (1000 foot spans)
Roebling's Online History Arvhive (suspension bridges)
Structurae Database and Gallery of Structures
Timber Pile Construction (Preservedwood.com)
 
Bay Area and Northern California Bridges | Carquinez | Golden Gate | SFOBB | Tower
Alameda County Drawbridges
Bridgeport Covered Bridge (Nevada Co.)
Bridges, A Northern California Sampler (Living Gold Press)
District 4 Toll Bridges
Historic Bridges in Butte, Nevada and Yuba Counties, California
Truss Bridges of Northern California (photographs, Butte-Glenn-Yuba)
Welcome to Bay Crossings
 
Carquinez
Major Projects on Route 80 (District 4)
Mark Ketchum's Carquinez Strait Bridge Page
New Carquinez Bridge (District 4)
 
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction - 1934-1936
Golden Gate Bridge Bond Issue Goes to the Voters - 1930
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District - Welcome
Golden Gate Bridge Org site
Golden Gate Suspension Bridge (BridgePros)
Swishweb.com : Science & Technology : Major Bridges
 
SFOBB
Bay Bridge Record Search Page (State Parks)
Bay Bridge Construction Halted by "Bloody Thursday" Riots - 1934 (SF Museum]
Golden Gate and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction - 1934-1936 (SF Museum)
MTC/ABAG Library Bay Bridge pagr
The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge Construction (CA State Museum)
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge - Construction Photographs, 1931-1936 (Bancroft Library)
San Francisco Bay Area Roads and Bridges
Bridging the Bay Online Exhibit
 
Tower Bridge
Sacramento - Paint the Tower Bridge - Vote Here
Tower Bridge -HABS-HAER pictures from the Library of Congress
Tower Bridge History (Joel Windmiller)
 

Southern California

LA County
LA Bridges from Los Angeles Almanac
LA Bridges: Photos (City of Los Angeles site)
Vincent Thomas Bridge (Los Angeles Almanac)

Santa Cruz Co.
Bridges Span Santa Cruz's Past _ Ross Gibson
Covered Bridges (Santa Cruz Co) - John Young article

 

Caltrans Resources
California Historic Bridge Inventory
California Local Agency Bridge List
Historic Highway Bridge Inventory - Caltrans Environmental Program
Structures Maintenance Home Page
Welcome to the Caltrans- Toll Bridge Web Site

 

CALTRANS HISTORY

General
Caltrans Fact Sheet: Caltrans Timeline
Caltrans Fact Sheet: Botts' Dots
Caltrans Functional Org Charts
CHPW Index
History Preservation Committee In Our Path: Introduction

District History Pages

District 4 History: Timeline of Events
District 8 History - Sullivan

 

HIGHWAY SIGNS AND SHIELDS

A.A. Highway Sign Gallery (AA Roads.com)
Auto Club of Southern Calif. (Westways article)
California Traffic Signs (Brian Smith)
Costs of Traffic Signs
Highway Route Markers (James Lin)
Maneri Sign Company - Signage hardware, traffic control items and installation services available. Traffic signs, custom signs, and industrial signs.
Open Directory - Recreation: Roads and Highways: Highway Signs
Sign Colors and Their Meanings (Richard C. Moeur)
Sign Posts and Supports (Richard C. Moeur)
Sign Shapes and Their Meanings (Richard C. Moeur)
Signing in California (D. Kriske)
Standard Sign Typefaces (Richard C. Moeur)
 

HIGHWAYS - ROUTES - CALIFORNIA

General

Named Freeways list
California Highways Home Page (Dan Faigin)
State Highway Routes (Casey Cooper)
The Highwayman's Home Page (Joel Windmiller)
Original California Routes: 1934
Passes & Summits

Northern California

California Highways (www.cahighways.org): Links to History
Highway 17 - San Jose & Santa Cruz
The California Gold Country: Highway 49 Revisited - Gold Rush Website
Indigestion 238
Freeways of San Francisco

Southern California

California Highways (www.cahighways.org): Southern California Freeway Development
Deceased Highway 252
District 8 clickable signs
D8 Data Retrieval System
Former Freeway Names
Freeway Interchanges in the Los Angeles Area
Highway 56 Information
Highway Page (So. CA)
Historical Highways of Central and Southern California (Mike Ballard)
Master Plan Of Freeways and Expressways To Be Built in L.A.
OC Freeways
Orange County, CA History Page
Pictorial Guide to the Los Angeles Area Highways
San Diego Highways Page
San Diego Highways: California 94
San Diego Highways: California 905
 

El Camino Real

Onate Revisits El Camino Real
El Camino Real and the Spanish Missions in California
California Highways (www.cahighways.org): El Camino Real
 

Ridge Route

Ridge Route.Com
Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures - Ridge Route
Virtual Tour of the Ridge Route

HIGHWAYS - ROUTES - U.S.

General

Andy's Highway Kick-Off Page
Bygone Byways
Historic US Highways (Casey Cooper)
The History of Roads and Asphalt
James Sterbenz U.S. Route List
Open Directory - Recreation: Roads and Highways
Two-Lane Roads Quarterly - Historic highways page
US Highways - East
U.S. Highways: From US 1 to (US 830) (RVD)
What Scenic Highway Designation Can Do
When Roads Had Names

Good Roads Movement

Good Roads - American Society of Civil Engineers - Sacramento Section
Good Roads to Tourism (Oregon State)
BFGoodrich and the Early Automobile Age
Good Roads (www.sensato.com)
Good Roads: Making of America Journal Articles
Making of America

Lincoln Highway and US 40

US 40

National Road Association
December/January 2000 Supplemental Info
Frank Brusca's Route 40 - National Road Web Site
History of the Lincoln Highway: From Dirt Path to Concrete Highway
A Comparison of the National Road and Route 40 with the Lincoln Highway and Route 66

Lincoln Highway - General

Frank Brusca's Route 40 - National Road Web Site
Lincoln Highway (autochannel)
lincoln highway (Coffedrome site)
Lincoln Highway (J Lin)
Lincoln Highway Adventures: Traveling America's First Transcontinental Highway
Topic: Lincoln Highway Association (U. Michigan)
LINCOLN HIGHWAY WEST home page
Mohawk-Hobbs elevation guide Lincoln Highway

Lincoln Highway - California

Scenic Highway 50
Finding US 6
California Highways (www.cahighways.org): Telling a Story through Highway and Planning Maps
Lincoln Highway Association - California Chapter
 

US 50

COAST to COAST on US 50. A Journey Across America on Route 50, also known as Highway 50. Travel by car from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
US50 - History of Highway 50 and Route 50

Route 66

Photo Gallery
Railroad Stations of Route 66
Oklahoma Route 66 Association Official Web Site
Route 66 Association of NEW MEXICO - "The Mother Road in the Land of Enchantment!"
National Historic Route 66 Federation. A Nationwide Organization
ROUTE 66 - ASSOCIATIONS
ROUTE 66
Largest Route 66 Resource on the Web
Barstow, CA
Route 66 / Area 51 USA TOUR 1997 & 1998: California
Route 66, California Mojave Desert
Route 66 Welcome Center and Gift Shop

U S 99

Introduction to US 99 (Mike Ballard)
Finding US 99 Guide (Casey Cooper)

Interstates

Daniel Faigin's Home Page: Highways and Transportation Resources
Interstate-5, main menu of links to counties with exit links and services
Faigin's 80 information
FHWA Finding Aid & Route Log - Interstate Highway System
Interstate 80
Interstate 480 Freeway Plan
Interstates: Kurumi
PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956: Creating the Interstate System
PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Index
Utah Highways Pages - Nationwide Interstate Links
 

MAPS & GEOGRAPHIC PLACE NAMES (HISTORIC)

General

1895 Atlas California
California County Maps 1850-present from California Assn. of Counties
California's First Counties
CALIFORNIA 1895 COUNTY MAPS
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Historic Maps - Princeton University Library
Library of Congress Map Collections Home Page
Map Date Codes
Named Highways 1921 (Sensato.com)
Panoramic Maps Collection (LC Web)
Railroad Maps Collection (LC web)
Road maps to the future
Search Digital Maps via Pathfinder (UC Berkeley)

Bay Area and Northern California

Donner party trail
Golden Gate (UC Berkeley)
Large Scale Historic T-sheets for the San Francisco Bay Area
Marin County (Marin Community College)
Merced 1917 (U Texas)
Modesto 1917 (U Texas)
Oakland 1917 (U Texas)
San Francisco 1915 (U Texas)
SF 1860 (UC Berkeley)
SF 1906 (UC Berkeley)
San Francisco Historical Maps
San Francisco History - Early City Views
San Francisco History - 1873 Street Map
San Jose 1928 (Stanford U)

Los Angeles/San Diego and Southern California

San Diego 1917 (U Texas)
Central LA 1917 (U Texas)
West LA 1902 (U Texas)
East LA 1900 (U Texas)
LA 1917 (U Texas)
Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures

 

PAVEMENT & PAVING

Asphalt Origins (Rockbinders.com)
History of Asphalt (beyondRoads.com)
History of Asphalt (Asphalt Institute)
History of Emulsified Asphalt
History of Paving (Mirage Paving)
History of Roads and Asphalt (About.com)
Macadam Roads (Curbstone.com)
Pavement History - Highways (Portland Cement Association site)
John Knapton's Pictorial Guide to Paving Through the Ages (pavestones)

PHOTOGRAPHS

eGroups : PhotoHistory
FEMA: CALIFORNIA FLOODING PHOTOGRAPHS
SacHistory Online
Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures
Photo Gallery The Norman Wallace Collection (AZ DOT)
Santa Monica Public Library - Image Archives
CalPhotos: California Dept. of Water Resources
California Heritage Collection
HABS/HAER Collections: Library of Congress

TRANSPORTATION HISTORY

General

ARTBA 100th Anniversary Index
Articles and Links about Roads and Transportation
Burma Shave, jingles, roadside signs, route 66, old highways, interstates, nostalgia, sentimental
Division of the History of Technology
Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Transportation History
History Museum Links - Transportation
 
MSNBC -- Driving Vacations through the Ages
ODP Recreation/Roads and Highways FAQ
RC Transportation - Department History
Women in Transportation

Automobiles

History of American Cars and Roads
History of Motor Vehicle Legislation
LA's First Automobile

Buses

Motor Bus Society Home Page

Engineering

ASCE: 150 Years of Civil Engineering
ASCE:History and Heritage of Civil Engineering
Centuries of Civil Engineering:A Rare Book Exhibition Celebrating the Heritage of Civil Engineering
The Civil Engineering Portal - Transportation Engineering - Highway Engineering
CRM Archive Issue 23-04   Historic American Engineering Record:Thirty Years of Documenting America's Technological History
CRM Archive Issue Index
Geotechnical Research Report
HAER Collections: Library of Congress

Equipment, Service

Highway Equipment (ODOT)
Historical Construction Equipment Association
Roebling's Wire and Wire Products
Service Stations in California

Rail

Electric Railway Historical Association of Southern California
California Zephyr Virtual Museum
Ocean Shore Railroad, San Francisco, California

Trucks

American Truck Historical Society
Antique Truck Club of America
Antique Trucks Online

Publications

AAA - Auto Club of Southern California - Westways - Back Issues - 1999
PUBLIC ROADS On-Line (Summer 1996) - Index
Road Journals Subject Index
TRB Publications - Index
TRB - PATH Database


STATE & US DOT HISTORY WEB SITES

Arizona DOT: Norm Wallace Photo Gallery
Connecticut DOT 100 Year History
Iowa DOT History (pdf)
Michigan Highways History (unofficial site)
Minnesota DOT History
Nebraska Department of Roads History Site
New York State DOT History
North Carolina DOT (Board history)
ODOT History Center
Wisconsin Highways History (unofficial site)
US DOT Office of the Historian

 

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