Chevelon Creek Bridge in Winslow, Arizona

Engineering Stop of the Day: Chevelon Creek Bridge – near Winslow, Arizona If you enjoy stumbling across forgotten infrastructure, the Chevelon Creek Bridge is a small but elegant example of early highway engineering in the American Southwest. Built in 1912–1913, the bridge is a Warren pony-truss steel span fabricated by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company. At roughly 100 feet long and only about 13 feet wide, it reflects the scale of the early automobile era when roads carried a fraction of today’s traffic. The engineering challenge here wasn’t length — it was terrain. Chevelon Creek...