1 дек 1864 г. - First Wooden Railroad Bridge

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(Photo: Photograph of the construction of the first wood bridge over the Kaw River in 1864.)

In 1864 the UPRW-ED builds the first wooden railroad bridge across the Kaw River to join Missouri with Kansas at Wyandot at the present-day location of the Lewis and Clark Bridge. As specified in the Pacific Railway Act of 1862, The Union Pacific Railroad Eastern Division was to construct a wood rail way bridge across the northeastern most point on the Kaw River before it meets with the Missouri River (KS. Hist. Quarterly, V. XXXII No. 2, 1966 p. 170). The bridge was 1,100 feet in length with 780 feet over the river and 230 feet over the low ground. The draw was made in Chicago and was 124 feet in length and six white oak piles were driven in the ground to support the bridge with ice breakers on either side of the piles. The concrete piers were 24 feet square. It was located at roughly the same location as the Lewis and Clark automotive bridge between the two Kansas City’s.
On September 7, 1865 the first wood bridge was “swept away by freshets” which are a series of rises in the river as opposed to one massive flood (Petrowski, p. 126). A replacement wood bridge was completed in one year and eventually the first iron bridge by 1873. The iron bridge was rebuilt in 1907 and after several rehabs is currently a fixture in downtown KCK as part of the River Front Heritage Trail.
Other wooden railroad bridges over the Kaw were destroyed by floods in 1886 and 1903. One wood bridge was saved in 1903 when the Missouri Pacific helped stabilize it with 40 steam engines but is no longer in existence today.
In 1900 the Union Pacific completed construction of an iron bridge entering the Union Pacific yards at Armstrong. The one used today of a classic rusty color contains some of the original iron from a rehab in 1911. A second iron bridge was built right alongside and painted silver in 1903. Both bridges are still in use by the Union Pacific (see Historicalbridges.org for more information).
The Chicago Great Western Railroad built an iron bridge over the Kaw River in 1904. It is currently owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad and can be seen today on the southern end of the Fairfax Industrial District.
In 1905 the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad hired the American Bridge Company to build an iron bridge over the Kaw River. It is called the Rock Island Armourdale Bridge. This bridge can be seen today at the start of the Kaw River Trail on the west side of the Kaw and running across to the Kemper Arena in Missouri. This bridge is currently closed.
In 1916 the Southern Pacific contracted a graceful looking iron railroad bridge featuring Parker Truss Spans. This is the only bridge spanning the Kaw River built by a local Kansas City, Missouri bridge company. The SP bridge built by Waddell and Son is no longer in operation.
In 1917 the rare and massive double decker railroad Highline Bridge was completed by the Kansas City Terminal Railroad and other local railways. It was built by the Kelly-Atkinson Corporation and still very much in service today.

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