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What is a shoo-fly bridge?
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I was wondering about the origin too. <br /> <br />I've seen several arial photos of the wreck. It was an older, double track, through truss bridge. When the pile up began, several cars piled up inside the bridge, then they began to pile up against the bridge. Tore out several girders on the truss and knocked the end off the end abutment that supports it. One end of the bridge partially dropped down toward the river. The rails were about 12 feet above the water when the bridge was in good repair. The cars accordianed up, perpendicular to the track. I can't imagine the bang it made. UP had the shoo-fly running by about 6 pm last night and had about 25 trains over it by around 10 am today. They're driving pilings today and expect to have the concrete poured for the first bridge by end of day Sun and the 2nd bridge by end of day Weds.
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