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The St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge may be a vertical-lift bridge that spans the Mississippi in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota. This can be one in every of solely 3 vertical-lift bridges on the Mississippi, beside the Hastings Rail Bridge in Hastings, Gopher State and also the Wabash River Bridge in Hannibal, Missouri. It absolutely was in-built 1913 and was designed by Waddell & Harrington. In 1925, the north finish of the bridge was raised regarding sixteen feet to tie in with tracks that served the St. Paul Union Depot yard.
The vertical-lift span has 105-foot high towers, and also the electrical raise system was engineered with a doable 45-foot elevation. However, by 1973, the number of raise was reduced to thirty seven feet, attributable to aging of the instrumentation. The bridge was originally engineered by the Chicago nice Western Railroad, that later became a part of the Chicago and North Western company. The parliamentarian Street Bridge, engineered later in 1926, had to be rigorously designed round the railroad bridge. In Apr 1997, high water on the Mississippi reached all-time low of the span. The Union Pacific Railroad noticed a train of hopper cars laden with rocks on the bridge to assist anchor it and keep it from being washed away.
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