Ligonier Valley Rail Road Newspaper Articles
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Latrobe Bulletin
August 27, 1923
Ligonier Valley Railroad Keeps Busy Improving
Immense Concrete Girders Placed For The New Bridge Yesterday
Four huge slabs of concrete, two of them weighing 90 tons each, and the others slightly less, were placed yesterday, at Millbank, to make a new bridge for the L. V. R. R., at that point. The slabs were about 36 feet long and about 7 feet 10 inches in width.
Two wreck train derricks, from Derry and Youngwood, did the heavy work of the day. The huge slabs had been made on the ground, and everything was in readiness yesterday morning. After the first passenger train had gone up, the derricks started to lift the first slab.
A derrick was on each side of the bridge, and the ponderous concrete slabs were easily lifted and set in place on the abutments. They are arranged so that two tracks can be laid over the bridge, if the Liggie ever needs the extra track.
The work took all day. An extra passenger train was left on the Latrobe side of the bridge , and on the afternoon trip passengers were transferred around the open bridge, a train having run from Ligonier to Millbank, and the train on the Latrobe side having picked up the passengers and the baggage and brought them to Latrobe. The track was relaid over the new bridge, and everything was ready for traffic this morning.