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    The Pit River Bridge (officially the Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Bridge) is a double deck, deck truss, road and rail bridge over Shasta Lake in...
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    photograph was taken in Redding, California, at the Pit River Bridge and was titled "Rescue on Pit River Bridge". The photograph was taken with a Kodak Brownie...
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  • of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. Amateur photographer Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first...
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    miles (16 km) of the river forming the middle arm of the lake. The McCloud arm joins the Pit River arm just east of the Pit River Bridge on Interstate 5,...
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  • The Bridge over the River Kwai (French: Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï) is a novel by the French novelist Pierre Boulle, published in French in 1952 and English...
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    Shasta Dam (category Dams on the Sacramento River)
    east over the steel truss Pit River Bridge, which remains the tallest combined road and rail bridge in the world. The bridge was built to a height of more...
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    presidential campaign. 1954 Virginia Schau Amateur photographer "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", a photograph of a thrilling rescue at Redding, California. 1955 John...
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    Pitting corrosion, or pitting, is a form of extremely localized corrosion that leads to the random creation of small holes in metal. The driving power...
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  • track and a street. Pit River Bridge across Lake Shasta- 4 lanes of Interstate 5 and also Union Pacific Railroad Florida Acosta Bridge – Carries two monorail...
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    The Pit River Bridge, which carries Interstate 5 and the Union Pacific Railroad over the reservoir, is structurally the highest double-decked bridge in...
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    crossing over Shasta Lake on the Pit River Bridge and climbing up to near the foot of Mount Shasta. Just north of the bridge over Shasta Lake, I-5 also boasts...
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    Westminster Bridge is a road-and-foot-traffic bridge over the River Thames in London, linking Westminster on the west side and Lambeth on the east side...
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    John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge (formerly the Cincinnati-Covington Bridge) is a suspension bridge that spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio,...
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  • rivers to the Carquinez Strait. The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta is an inverted delta at the juncture of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers....
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    Memorial Bridge—900' New River Gorge Bridge—876' Foresthill Bridge—730' Glen Canyon Dam Bridge—700' Phil G. McDonald Bridge—700' Rio Grande Gorge Bridge—565'...
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    years. By 1889, "work on the anchor pits was progressing rapidly." On March 5, 1896, the Hudson Highland Bridge and Railway Company filed for incorporation...
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  • the Lions Gate Bridge. The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952 novel) and its 1957 film adaptation The Bridge on the River Kwai The Bridge of San Luis Rey...
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    Upware Bridge Pit North is a 2.5-hectare (6.2-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest northwest of Wicken in Cambridgeshire. It is a Geological...
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    River Bridge is a historic double-leaf bascule bridge in Wayne County, Michigan, at the border of the cities of Detroit and River Rouge. The bridge carries...
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  • "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the winning photograph...
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    flood and never replaced. The Dutch River was difficult to navigate, made more hazardous by shoals, three awkward bridges, and low water levels at neap tides...
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    repaving the eastbound lanes from the bridge to Pats Pit Stop. During the Mississippi River Floods of 2019, the bridge was once again closed. List of crossings...
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    Charles Air Line Bridge Lewis and Clark Bridge (Columbia River) Thames River Bridge (Amtrak) Outer Drive Bridge HX Draw Lefty O'Doul Bridge "Two of San Francisco's...
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    Maori storage pits can be confused with fighting pits and also pits which were excavated to extract drainage material, especially on old river terraces where...
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    waterways: Bridges over the Don River ravine, listed from south to north Cherry Street lift bridge Gardiner Expressway pedestrian and bicycle bridge on the...
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  • automatically sent to "The Pit." Winners: Cara Maria & Jamie Meet Me Halfway: A platform, with a narrow, unstable swinging bridge in the middle, is suspended...
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    Acheron (redirect from River or Woe)
    "Get you gone, and at the pit of Acheron meet me i' th' morning. Acheron Lake in Antarctica is named after the mythical river. Several ships have been...
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    It is fed by the Pit River and has tributaries of Clark Creek, Burney Creek, and Hat Creek and is impounded by the Pit #3 Dam. A bridge, owned by the Great...
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    Shasta Lake (category Pit River)
    created by an approaching river: the Sacramento River, the McCloud River, Squaw Creek, and the Pit River. The Sacramento River's source is the Klamath Mountains...
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    leaking unlined Fly ash pit located "on land that lies within a hairpin crook of the Mobile River." For this reason the river has been described as the...
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