Monday, December 17, 1934
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By Kevin Dsigaa
Daily Nebrasktn Staff Reporter
Fog obscured the view of most
spectators who turned out Sat
urday to watch the demolition of
the 06-year-old Burlington North
ern Railroad Bridge which spanned
the Missouri River at Nebraska
City.
Officials said the unused bridge
was destroyed to relieve Burling
ton Northern of maintenance re-
sponsibilities.
The bridge was one of the last
of its kind in the country, said
Sam Riter, project manager for
Martin Explosives Inc., the
company which undertook the
demolition.
Theyjust don't make them like
that anymore," he said. "You could
drive every back road from now
until you die and be lucky to
come across another like that
one."
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Edward Lyon, 89, who painted
the bridge as a young boy and
whose father collected tolls, had
the honor of setting off the explo
sion. He said originally the bridge
serviced a 7-mile stub-run be
tween Nebraska City and Payen
Junction, Iowa. "From there you
could hook-up with the main line
between Kansas City and Omaha,"
he said. He said the bridge was
built for the Burlington-Missouri
Railroad, which made 10 trips
every 24 hours across with pas
sengers and freight. t
Lyon said the bridge was
planked for pedestrians and horses
until the U.S. Hwy. 2 span was
constructed in 1932. "Tolls cost a
nickel if you walked, 40 cents for
single horse buggies and 50 cents
for team and wife," he said.
Riter said it was "an interest
ing bridge to work on because of
its massiveness." The steel was
two inches thick in places, he
said, and they estimated about
1 ,500 tons of steel were contained
in the entire structure. That's 3
million pounds of metal "Who
knows what went through the
engineer's mind 100 years ago?"
Riter said.
Cutting torches were used to
separate the bridge into sections
and cut off extraneous parts like
webbing, the criss-crossed pat
terns seen on bridges and other
braces of lower gauged metal,
Rite said. He said they cut around
stress areas, saving those parts
for the explosives.
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