Notice the railroad pile driver putting in the low-level piles. Here is a view of the finished bridge, one 300 foot and one 260-foot span.
It looks as though, unlike the other steel bridges, the approaches were completely filled here.
Saturday, January 3, 2015
Mile 28 The Second Big Steel Bridge
Bridge 27A took the line over the Copper River from the west bank to the east bank. The line ran on the eaat bank for just a mile before it crossed over to the west bank again on Bridge 28A, the Round Island Channel bridge. This bridge had concrete abutments on a pile foundation:
Notice the railroad pile driver putting in the low-level piles. Here is a view of the finished bridge, one 300 foot and one 260-foot span.
It looks as though, unlike the other steel bridges, the approaches were completely filled here.
Notice the railroad pile driver putting in the low-level piles. Here is a view of the finished bridge, one 300 foot and one 260-foot span.
It looks as though, unlike the other steel bridges, the approaches were completely filled here.
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