• The eyebars in the Silver Bridge offered little to no redundancy, as each chain link consisted of just two eyebars in parallel.
  • When it opened the bridge was the first of its kind in the US and Named the Silver Bridge by locals due to the silver color of the bridge.
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  • Silver bridge in 1967 The General Corporation and the American Bridge Company constructed the Highway Bridge in 1928.
  • The Main Street in Point Pleasant, West Virginia led straight onto an eyebar-chain style suspension bridge named "The Silver Bridge", based on its aluminum...
  • About a week before Christmas 1967, rush hour traffic crawled across the Silver Bridge that connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio.
  • And likewise, without Mothman, it’s possible that we would have forgotten the lessons of bridge safety ushered in by the Silver Bridge collapse.
  • A replacement for the Point Pleasant Bridge, a cantilever span, was completed one mile downstream in 1969 and is called the Silver Memorial Bridge..
  • It was called the Silver Bridge because of its paint job. Built in 1928, it was a unique eye-bar chain suspension bridge, strung from towers on both sides of the river.
  • A part that is similar to a Silver Bridge eye bar. The eye bars did the job that suspension cables do in modern bridges. rbt45769 (Atlas Obscura User).