CBQ - Rulo Bridge
Photos
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
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #158034
Facts
- 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
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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)
Update Log
- October 4, 2020: New photos from Nick Schmiedeler
- March 28, 2018: New photo from Richard Doody
- October 26, 2011: Photos imported by Jason Smith
- August 23, 2011: New photos from Ben Tate
- March 14, 2010: Added by James Baughn
Related Bridges
- BSNF - Rulo Bridge (Successor)
Sources
- HAER NE-4 - Rulo Bridge, Spanning Missouri River, Rulo, Richardson County, NE
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Richard Doody
- The Rulo Bridge : a report to Charles E. Perkins, president of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad : Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - 29 p., 23 leaves of plates : 35 x 55 cm
- Nick Schmiedeler - nick [at] nickschmiedeler [dot] com
Comments
Random run-in after visiting site of current Rulo bridges, drove west to Richardson County seat - Falls City, and the Whipple Truss RR bridge info and date plaque sitting outside Richardson County Historical Society warehouse, neat - wish it were open that day, would've loved to see what other bits were inside - this iron plaque is as huge as you'd imagine - what a treasure
Newly digitized bridge historical bridge report containing numerous original drawings of this bridge: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125016395564/page/n73
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ne/richardson/bh44440/
Great shot Nick! Now you need to go east and get a cap (assuming they make one) from the Cutler General Store in Cutler, IN. Oh, nice plaque BTW... :^)
Regards,
Art S.