Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1915 — HUGE GUN FOR CANAL ZONE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HUGE GUN FOR CANAL ZONE

This huge 16-inch gun, the biggest single piece of armament in the world, was on its way to the United States arsenal at Watertown, Mass.,to be mounted preparatory to shipment to the Panama canal for zone defenses. The gun. which weighs 284,800 pounds, had to be shipped on a specially constructed steel bridge car, which alone tips the scale at 192,420 pounds and which required a carriage of 32 wheels.