That plan to replace it. In an optimistic message after the collapse, BNSF said they should have it replaced by the end on the month of July. So far, engineers have been looking at it but nothing has been done.
Judging by the stuff piled up against the bridge, was this a flood damage. Water in flood can cause immense pressure…and then look like nothing when the floods have gone
It was caused by flooding. On June 23, 20224, the Big Sioux reached a new record level, over seven feet above the old record. The bridge is around 100 years old. BNSF sent a train across it around 6 pm when the water was only a foot or two below it and the bridge collapsed around 10:40 pm.
Hi there. Derek with EBU News in Geneva, Switzerland. Hope you are well. I am currently working on a story and would really like to include your video. Is this your video? If so, may we have permission to use your video as per news-exchange.ebu.ch/clearance, please?
I grew up in this neighborhood in the late 60's and 70's. Much has changed there since then. Delivered newspapers on my bicycle along Hawkeye Drive and to the railroad shops, which are gone now. Hopped trains in the railroad yard going home from school. Remember when many of those paved streets were dirt roads. Played football in empty lots which are developed now. Learned to ice skate in a pond on 18th and Stueben. Climbed to the top of the old coal elevator inside the vertical access shaft. Thanks for the memories, Bernie.
