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Big Boy on High Leval Bridge2 RW2 Big Boy crossing High Level bridge Newcastle with Armstongs swing bridge and the Tyne Bridge in the background. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The bridge was built for the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and together with Stephenson's Royal Border Bridge at Berwick upon Tweed, completed the line of a London-Edinburgh railway nowadays known as the East Coast Main Line. The bridge was opened to rail traffic, without ceremony, on 15 August 1849. It was officially opened on 27 September 1849 by Queen Victoria; and brought into ordinary use on 4 February 1850.[5 Designed by Robert Stephenson and built between 1847 and 1849, it is the first major example of a wrought iron tied arch or bow-string girder bridge. It is a fine and long standing engineering solution to a difficult problem; the spanning of 1,337 feet (408 m) of river valley, including 512 feet (156 m) across water. The High Level Bridge has six river spans of 125 feet (38 m) length, sitting on masonry piers 46 by 16 feet (14 by 4.9 m) in section and up to 131 feet (40 m) height. There are also four land spans on each side, of 36 feet 3 inches. The single carriageway road and pedestrian walkways occupy the lower deck of the spans, 85 feet (26 m) above the high water mark, and the railway the upper deck 112 feet (34 m) above the high water mark. The total weight of the structure is 5,000 tons.[2][3] Big Boy
Locomotive 4023, built in 1944, was one of 25 "Big Boy" articulated locomotives. Designed in Omaha by Otto Jabelmann and his engineering team to support the nation's entry into World War 2. It weighs 1.25 million pounds and has a pulling power of 7,000 horsepower at 70 m.p.h.. The last run of 4023 was July 20, 1959. Eleven days later, it was placed in storage in Cheyenne, WY. It was officially retired in 1962 after logging 829,295 miles. It has been on display in Omaha since 1975. Similar posts: monster truck toys transformers vintage toys hot new toys 2011 army toys guns girls toys 2011 my little pet shop toys the most popular toys |