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STATE HISTORIC BRIDGE INVENTORY AND EVALUATION 2024 UPDATE <br /> 1924 Wailuku River Railroad Bridge which was scavenged for reuse in the Kolekole Highway Bridge after <br /> the 1946 tsunami in Hilo. The 1912 Hanalei Bridge, a twentieth-century Pratt truss that crosses the <br /> Hanalei River on Kauai, was rehabilitated in 2003 in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's <br /> Standards for Rehabilitation;this bridge remains on the NRHP as a contributing resource of the Kauai <br /> Belt Road. <br /> 4 - 4, <br /> A a A <br /> • - <br /> FIGURE 9.STEEL STRINGER ELEVATION (DRAWING PROVIDED BY MKE ASSOCIATES LLC,2013). <br /> FIGURE 10.STEEL STRINGER SECTION(DRAWING PROVIDED BY MKE ASSOCIATES LLC,2013). <br /> Steel Stringer <br /> Steel stringers were constructed in Hawaii primarily for industrial and railroad bridges. Ornamentation, <br /> if any, is usually limited to the pattern of the railings. The two extant examples from the period of <br /> significance were constructed over railroad lines in Maui and Kauai. One is the the Waiale Drive Bridge <br /> on Kaahumanu Avenue in Wailuku, Maui. This bridge was constructed with U.S. Works Program Grade <br /> Crossing funding, which provided federal money without the usual match requirement, to build bridges <br /> separating railroad and road grades. The use of steel, uncommon in Hawaii due to the extreme marine <br /> environment, may reflect the requirements of the U.S. Grade Crossing Program. Since very little steel is <br /> used for bridge construction in Hawaii, this may be considered an unusual structural type. It should be <br /> noted that there are numerous steel stringer bridges that feature wood plank decks and wood railings. If <br /> still extant, these bridges are addressed as timber bridges since their appearance to the general public is <br /> wood. <br /> cIII ! <br /> 22 <br />