Tribal officials report that replacing the wooden Howe Truss with a steel replica is the only cost-effective option to ...

They used to be all over Oregon from the 1920s through the ’50s: “standard highway” wooden covered bridges with a Howe Truss design. But the one that spanned the Willamette Slough on Irish Bend Road ...

truss — A framework of triangulated forms in which all loads are carried by compression or tension in each member of the frame. It is time for the fire service to make peace with an old nemesis: the ...