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| Dan Sabin posted Truman Drawbridge joint Milwaukee and Rock Island at Kansas City. Patrick Flynn: I got the US&S CTC machine for the track they controlled from there and donated it to the local Milwaukee Road Historical Assn. It had been sitting in a boxcar in Ottumwa for years, but intact. We used it (the panels) at various meets and had it rigged up to let the kids throw signals and switches and ring the approach circuit bells and watch the lights go on and off (The IMRL brought it to a storage shed in Liberty about 2001 and then it sat in my garage for a couple of years until we rigged it up for display. IMRL had used a boom truck to “deliver it!”) zit made several meetings and railfan events… When the museum at KC Union Depot opened up (2005?) we then gave it to them on a loan basis. They put it all back together (the cabinets weighed hundreds of pounds). I saw it last there about 2007, and word was Mike Haverty (then CEO of KCS and Museum Director of the board) was going to get it restored to near working display condition. Don’t know whatever became of it. When I configured it for portable displays I pulled all the masking tape and dymo labels off and found lots of RI “notes” and references under them. Harry Garvin: Is it still in service today? Kerry Mortensen: Harry GarvinYes it is. CP (Now CPKC) Comes through NKC then over the Missouri into the Front Street Industrial area. Passes through Air Line Junction, past the UP Neff Yard to the West, through Sheffield and south out of KC across The Blue Ridge towards The Gulf of America... |
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| Dick Tinder commented on Dan's post Here's what it looks like up on top of the bridge: |
Most of the apparent width of the towers is just a counterweight guide. The towers are really just steel beams.
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| Matthew Wong, Dec 2018 |
The following information provided by the American Bridge Company:American Bridge constructed a 23-span, 2,577' (785m) single-track railroad bridge for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Line) and Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (Rock Island Line) and connected to the Kansas City Terminal Railway. The bridge includes 19 girder spans of approximately 75' each, three fixed spans of 250' each and a 417' (127m) vertical lift channel span. Total weight of steel was 4,568 tons. Construction began on August 12, 1944 and completed May 29, 1945. The bridge was named for Harry S. Truman, a Kansas City native who had just become President of the United States when construction began. Erection was by locomotive crane, travelers and guy derricks, and 120,000 man-hours of effort were consumed.Two of the three photos posted by All Trains Discussion.
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