Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — Monster Locomotive in Perilous Plight [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Monster Locomotive in Perilous Plight

The collapse of a bridge near Greencastle, 4nd., from under a battleship type of locomotive developed an unusual problem for the wrecking crew. The bridge had Just been built and had been approved by engineers but the locomotive had hardly brought its full weight on It before it sank with a roar and a crash, the center falling 25 feet to the ground, leaving the locomotive susperided with the front wheels on the bastions of one side of the bridge and the rear wheels on the other.