RAYNE TOWNSHIP — Indiana County Parks & Trails recently secured $807,314 to restore and repair the Kintersburg Covered Bridge — one of only four Howe truss bridges remaining in Pennsylvania. The ...

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 ...

I recently discovered a copy of the Sixth Annual Report of the Northern Central Railway Co. for the Year 1860. The Supervisor’s Report, dated January 1st, 1861, from the Road Department provides some ...

SEQUIM — Construction crews were busy Thursday morning preparing the second steel truss span section for installation on the western trestle of the Dungeness River Bridge. The first span section was ...

Wood truss construction surged in popularity in the 1960s and ’70s, but back then most buildings that used metal-plate-connected wood trusses had flat ceilings. With today’s CAD and BIM technology, ...