Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — NEW BRIDGE QUICKLY PUT UP [ARTICLE]

NEW BRIDGE QUICKLY PUT UP

Union Pacific Engineers Successful in What Is Called a Remarkable Piece of Work. _ ' The old steel bridge of the Union Pacific railroad over the Missouri river between Omaha and Council Bluffs, which had been in service for 30 years, was recently removed and replaced by a new steel bridge, which had been built on false work alongside the old. The actual operation of removing the old bridge, which weighed 5,600,(XX) pounds, and putting in place the new, which weighed 11,200,000 pounds, required 15 minutes, four and a half minutes for the removal of the old and ten and one-half minutes to replace it with the new. Five hoisting engines, equipped with block and tackle, were used. Union Pacific officials said the work was an unusual engineering feat. An hour after the new bridge was in place vwere running over it.