Show I SALT LAKE RO ROuTE n i BUiLDING lONGEST i BRIDGE m WITH DRAW DRAV I ISpan Span of Feet Is Raised Instead of Swinging on ona ona a 8 Pivot The longest r railroad drawbridge in t ie world Is expected U to be bo finished and ready renlY for tor operation in two weeks The bridge Is being built by the Salt Lake Lale route and will connect Long Lons Beach and nal Cal Its draw is one ono that rises instead of oC swinging n on n a pivot Operation will b beby bo be boby by electric power flora mom the Long Bench Beach end furnished by bv the Pacific Electric RaU Railway 1 company compan The Tho moving span Is 13 ISO 1 SO foot feet Oft At tho the Lo Lou Lons Beach Bench end Is the counter r counterweight counterweight counterweight weight tower or box bot tilled filled with concrete So delicately Is the thc balance fixed that this weight Is exactly cUy that of oC the tho moving span to be raised and L If tho the machinery gets out of oC order one man can cnn raise or lower the draw by hand This will be bedone bedone bedone done In case of ot emergency the draw Is up the Uio counter er weight weIcht will KO go o down It Is much ns as though ono one were to take a huge triangle like a carpenters carpenter 3 square quare with a hea heavy base rose stand It upright upright up up- right on Its baseS base build a huge huse box and ami place It on Oil the tho top of or the hypotenuse h l to t make the latt letters letter's rs r's weight voight equal to that mat O or oi I t the e base fasten Casten the right an angle lc to a 3 pivot tI then en raise the thc base by the weight Ight of or th the box on tho end of tho the hypotenuse an and I swing the base back Into place b by it Ha own 0 weight welSh just setting the whole In mation motion motion mo mo- tion by n a very slight exertion of power On R n level with tho the counter weight bo box is a platform known as the machinery on which are arc placed two 20 horse po power po or motors When lowered the bridge bridge- is locked in place at the Terminal Island I end A set of automatic signals will notify notify noti noti- fy 3 engineers of approaching trains tr to stop when the draw is raised or to go so ahead I with a n clear bridge Tho The total hel height ht from tho the floor of or the J bridge to the tho top of the counter weight I box Is feet feoL I The Tho bridge was all aU built at the Llewellyn Llewel lyn Ira Iron works In Los Angeles and Is the tho first of ot Its 1 kind In southern CAlI California Corn I a. a I Th piers of ot the old bridge ha have havo been used as false Calse work The They will b bo be taken out when tho the new now structure Is finished During the building the tho trains have used I a a. temporary trestle At present the bridge o merely crosses cro cs a n. adry adry I dr dry or almost dry b bed d or sand Sometimes Sometimes Some Somo- times there Is water there but very er little I Inside there Is water and It Is tho the Intention intention tion Lion to dredge It all nil out and make mako a barbor harI harbor har bar I bor of or Long Beach For this end the government government gov gay has forced tho railroad to build bund bundI I the drawbridge Until the tho dredger cr It at atI work there will be 00 little practical use Corthe for Cor forthe or orthe the draw I The si site Is about a 1 quarter of or a mile beyond the Pacific Electrics Electric's terminal at Seaside park The Thc total cost of ot the bridge I will vIll be between and |