Sentence examples for wagon bridges from inspiring English sources

From the heights we gazed at rafters and kayakers paddling past a line of stubby stone piers, the remains of rail and wagon bridges destroyed in the war.

McClellan was thus in an angle of the Chickahominy, and he could not move down the Peninsula without crossing the river at some of the numerous wagon bridges below Dispatch Station.

In 1888, the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company built the Douglas Street Bridge, the first pedestrian and wagon bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs.

"Just take the station wagon over the bridge," they told him.

At a recent concert, Lambert performed one of her old hits, "Little Red Wagon," singing the bridge a bit differently.

Travellers have a choice; they can walk for 1km (0.6 miles), or they can sit in a horse-drawn wagon ride over a potholed bridge.

Sal is the source of one of the most important commercial timbers which are used for railway sleeper, beams, scantlings, floors, piles, bridges, carriage and wagon-building, shipbuilding industry, ladders, carts, spokes, hubs of wheels, tool handles, ploughs, dyeing vats, beer, oil casks and tanning materials.

The locomotive climbed over the back of the coal train, coming to rest 40 yds later on top of a coal wagon and against the A420 Church Road bridge.

Between June and September alone, 95 railroad bridges, 285 locomotives, 1,365 wagons and 17 tunnels were all blown up by the Belgian resistance.

Finished sole leather was hauled over the bridge by horse-drawn wagon south about 8 mile to Little Bear Creek, where it was exchanged for "green" hides and other supplies brought north from Montoursville.

However, on January 1 , 1865 the cables snapped under the weight of mules and wagons, and the entire bridge fell into the river, injuring the wagoners, and drowning three of the mules.