Talk:Berlin Iron Bridge Co.

organization and puzzle

How to organize material for this article? I am thinking that the location of bridges by state is not the optimal organizing scheme, because the article should focus more on the firm and the various products/models that it made. Where a given bridge kit ended up being installed seems random, largely unrelated to the company. So by bridge type / model if those can be discerned. Otherwise bridges could be listed by year of their being built, i guess. There are good passages of material about the company, and good sources, in some of the articles about individual bridges and buildings.

The presence of Mount Orne Covered Bridge, a wooden covered bridge in New Hampshire, seems odd; the bridge co. is named in the NRIS system as architect but i am wondering if it just provided some metal structural pieces for the 1911 rebuilding of that bridge. --doncram (talk) 18:42, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

The Mt. Orne Covered Bridge wasn't built by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, which had ceased to exist by 1911. However, it was indeed built by the later, related Berlin Construction Company, a firm which also typically produced all-iron bridges. While the Mt. Orne bridge is basically a wooden covered bridge, it uses the Howe truss design which incorporates iron tension rods. Thus, iron was a critical component of the build, a fact which sheds a bit of light on the involvement of an iron bridge-builder. Although it was fairly rare for iron bridge companies to work in wood, it did occur from time to time, perhaps when the price was right or business was slow.

Anyhow, the removal of the Mt. Orne Covered Bridge from this article in 2015 (where it was listed as a Berlin Iron Bridge Company bridge) was correct, since it was actually built by a successor company. Still, it seemed like a good idea to leave this overview in the talk page for the review of any future editors. —Jgcoleman (talk) 02:59, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks so much! The Mt. Orne Covered Bridge is then properly listed at the Berlin Construction Company / Berlin Steel Construction Company article instead. --doncram 04:20, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

@Doncram: No problem! And yes, it is certainly well-placed there. It looks like this issue had already mostly sorted itself out: Mt. Orne was removed from this article a year ago and it appears to have already been added to the Berlin Construction Company article. All that was left, it seems, was to finish by explaining why an iron bridge builder assembled Mt. Orne's timber bridge.... so there we have it! —Jgcoleman (talk) 16:03, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

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