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Photocopy From George S. Morison's The Rulo Bridge, 1890. Photographer Unknown, Circa 1887. South Web And East Portal Of Bridge

Photo collected by the Historic American Engineering Record

BH Photo #158034

Overview: Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Missouri River
Location: Rulo, Richardson County, Nebraska, and Holt County, Missouri
Status: Superstructure replaced
History: Built 1887 under the direction of George S. Morison; replaced 1977 by new truss spans reusing the existing piers
Builders: - Benjamin L. Crosby of St. Louis, Missouri (Resident engineer)
- Drake & Stratton Co. of New York City, New York & Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Substructure)
- Edge Moor Bridge Works of Wilmington, Delaware (Superstructure)
- George S. Morison of New Bedford, Massachusetts (Chief engineer)
- Mark Waldo (Assistant engineer)
Railroad: - Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CBQ)
Design: Main spans: Three Whipple through truss
Approaches: Pratt deck trusses
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 375.0 ft.
Also called: Old Rulo Railroad Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +40.05444, -95.42083 (decimal degrees)
40°03'16" N, 95°25'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 15/293512/4436607 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Rulo
Inventory number: BH 44440 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

CB&Q - Rulo Bridge

Posted October 1, 2019, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Newly digitized bridge historical bridge report containing numerous original drawings of this bridge: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125016395564/page/n73