Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1901 — A Cantilever Bridge In Alaska. [ARTICLE]

A Cantilever Bridge In Alaska.

The White Pass and Yukon Railway company has just finished a cantilever bridge over the White Pass canyon 850 feet in length, with a clear span of 240 feet, and 275 feet high above the bottom of the canyon in the middle. The everlasting ice had to be quarried away for the supports of the bridge. When tested with the weight of a massive rotary snowplow and two engines coupled together, there was a total downward deflection in the middle of the bridge of hut five-eighths of an inch.