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On the morning of the blast, reporters watched from the riverbank behind the Sioux City Railroad Museum. The broken bridge that spans the Big Sioux River ... The middle of the truss bridge sagged ...
The middle section of the century-old, steel truss bridge fell into the swollen ... BNSF shares the line over the Big Sioux River with D&I Railroad, a shortline carrier owned by Sioux Falls ...
SIOUX CITY — Construction crews were moving dirt, along the Iowa side of the Big Sioux River, Thursday, in preparation to rebuild a railroad ... early 20th century truss bridge with a modern ...
Donated by: CSX Transportation – Originally on the Pennsylvania Railroad Original Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania near 30th street station Year Built: 1903 Donated to SBRITE: July 2015 Structure ...
This part of the bridge was on the Iowa side of the Big Sioux River and was mostly ... On that day, the South Dakota side of the railroad bridge began collapsing late Sunday night.
In existence since 1889 and for about 100 years previously under another name, the Terminal Railroad Association ... some of the first large-scale steel truss bridges in the country.
The Broadway railroad bridge in Dover was struck by a box truck on Wednesday afternoon but was undamaged, according to Dover police. The old steel truss structure ... with large trucks and the ...
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Saturday, Aug. 19. A long train of cars loaded with HOWE's truss bridges, to replace the bridges recently destroyed on the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division, by the ...
“These heavy stone structures looked beautiful but eventually gave way to steel bridges with truss systems.” But don’t make the mistake of assuming metal bridges can’t be works of ...