Said train cars are still on said bridge, now at the bottom of the
river. Some are speculating that the sunken bridge may be acting as a
partial dam, making the flooding here in Cedar Rapids even worse.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jethro <tr3.4.me@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/13/08, Peter C <peter@nosimport.com> wrote:
>>
>> Big DOT dump trucks full of heavy
>> stuff parked on the bridge over the Crawfish River to hold it down.
>
>
> Hopefully it works better there then it did in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where they
> ran train cars with "rock ballast" out on a railroad bridge in hopes of
> keeping it from being swept away.
>
>http://www.necn.com/Boston/Nation/Bridge-collapses-in-Iowa-floodwaters-/1213363300.html
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