Over the years, I have had several opportunities to photograph old truss bridges that have been converted to pedestrian-only for preservation. This is one of the rare bridges that I have driven over when it was still open for cars in the Donelson neighborhood of Nashville.
When this bridge was originally built in 1928, it carried both directions of traffic along Lebanon Pike (US70) in Nashville. It is a riveted 8-panel Parker through truss with K-Hybrid panels with a total length of 525 ft. to cross the Stones River.
When Lebanon Pike needed to expand to two lanes in both directions, the Elmer Disspayne Sr Memorial Bridge was built parallel to this one to carry two eastbound lanes while the old bridge would carry two westbound lanes. Then when this bridge was structurally deficient in 2009 the Disspayne bridge was widened to carry all the lanes of traffic and this became part of the Stones River Greenway.
Using the historical Google streetview feature, you can get some good before and after views here:
www.google.com/maps/@36.1864483,-86.6330898,3a,75y,251.36...
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