Hannibal Bridge

[taxi]

Awesome, I go across that everyday. I can't wait for my 19,000 ton train to fall in! Here is a fun fact...after each time the bridge closes, someone has to go out with a hammer to get the tracks to line back up.

That is the kinda info that keeps me coming back to this forum. Thanks teclis!

[shinatoo]

Looks like the camera caught it in mid turn and stitched the two photos together.

[smh]

How many times a year on average is the bridge opened?

[mean]

Looks like the camera caught it in mid turn and stitched the two photos together.

Agreed, but it's way more fun to imagine that the bridge fell apart and nobody noticed.

[teclis]

How many times a year on average is the bridge opened?

I don't think very often now. Maybe a couple of times a month.

I know that when it has been opened, it backs the yard up for a while since they have to talk us by the signal that governs the bridge until they get around to fixing it.

[Eon Blue]

If you're going NB on the Broadway Bridge and look at the south end of the swing span you can see a couple old railcar axles sitting on the bottom horizontal member of the truss next to the deck as a counterweight. The story I heard is that they were put there as to balance the swing span after the road deck was removed.

Here's a video of the bridge closing a couple years ago that I took with my dinky camera from the Town of Kansas Bridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_8Bd7ueFfI