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The Eads Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River connecting the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois. It is located on the St. Louis riverfront between Laclede's Landing to the north, and the grounds of the Gateway Arch to the south.
Eads Bridge: 1867, 1874 1966-10-15 St. Louis: St. Louis City: Cantilever deck arch Grand Auglaize Bridge: 1931 2020-10-08 vic. of Brumley: Miller: A suspension and swinging bridge designed and built by Dice. Hargrove Pivot Bridge: 1917 1985-10-15 Poplar Bluff
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) was founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a successful IBM salesman who first-hand observed how inefficiently IBM's customers typically were using their expensive systems.
Each arch of the new bridge weighs about 5 million pounds and measures about 400 feet long and 80 feet tall. The Portal Arches will be transported by barges down the Hudson River later this year.
Clyde Elton Love (December 12, 1882 – January 31, 1960) was an American contract bridge author and mathematics professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [1] He was a native of Bancroft, Michigan and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1905.
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...
Laclede's Landing is the easternmost station in Missouri. It is located on the lower deck of the Eads Bridge before crossing the Mississippi River into Illinois.. The station sits at the east portal of the historic Downtown Tunnel, constructed in 1874 to carry trains between the Eads Bridge and the Mill Creek Valley rail yards. [4]
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