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11 unusual facts about Eads Bridge


SS Admiral

The complete dismantlement was delayed because the 2011 Mississippi River floods made it impossible to transport it downstream under the Eads Bridge.

Since the early 1990s it was operated from moorings near Eads Bridge as the President Casinos.

Timeline of three longest supported deck arch bridge spans

from:1874 till:1877 color:Eads-Paint text:"152m Eads Bridge, other span"

from:1874 till:1877 color:Eads-Paint text:"158m Eads Bridge, Illinois"

The lower deck of the Eads Bridge is suspended a bit, but not below the underside of the arch, and the upper deck is completely above of the arch, so Eads is included.

from:1877 till:1885 color:Eads-Paint text:"158m Eads Bridge, Illinois"

from:1885 till:1888 color:Eads-Paint text:"158m Eads Bridge, Illinois"

from:1877 till:1885 color:Eads-Paint text:"152m Eads Bridge, other span

Walter Katte

Katte led design and construction of Eads Bridge at St. Louis, Park Avenue Viaduct, and construction of the Weehawken Tunnel in New Jersey, was Chief Engineer of the New York Central Railroad company, founding member of Western Society of Engineers and one of early members and director of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

William Milnor Roberts

As a young civil engineer involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge, the chief engineer of Northern Pacific Railroad, America's second transcontinental railroad, and president of the American Society of Civil Engineers scarcely two decades after its founding, Roberts was one of the most prolific and prominent civil engineer of his generation in the United States.

In 1868, he served as associate chief engineer in construction of Eads Bridge across Mississippi River at St. Louis.


Coraopolis Bridge

John Baird had also been involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and the Cairo bridge in Memphis, and had been employed by the McCann Construction Company, the Keystone Bridge Company and American Bridge Company.