Rulo Bridge

File:New Rulo Bridge 2025a.jpg

The Rulo Bridge is a bridge that carries U.S. Route 159 over the Missouri River between Rulo, Nebraska and Minton Township, Missouri west of Big Lake.

History

= Original bridge =

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Rulo Bridge

| nrhp_type =

| image = Rulo-bridge.jpg

| caption = The original Rulo Bridge (left), pictured from the Missouri side in 2006, with the Rulo Rail Bridge behind it

| location = {{jct|country=USA|US|159}}, Rulo, Nebraska, and Holt County, Missouri

| coordinates = {{coord|40|3|14.35|N|95|25|13.95|W|display=inline,title}}

| area =

| built = 1938

| architect = Harrington & Cortelyou

| architecture =

| added = January 4, 1993

| delisted = November 16, 2015

| mpsub = Highway Bridges in Nebraska MPS

| refnum = 92000718{{NRISref|2007a}}

}}

The old Rulo bridge was a truss bridge built in 1939 by the Works Progress Administration and Kansas City Bridge Company. It was featured in the 1973 film Paper Moon, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.{{Cite web |url=http://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/92000718.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Rulo Bridge |access-date=2017-01-01 |last=Hess |first=Demian |date=June 1991 |publisher=Missouri Department of Natural Resources}} (includes 1 photograph)

The historic bridge was imploded on January 19, 2014, and removed from the National Register that year.{{Cite web |date=November 27, 2015 |title=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 11/16/15 Through 11/20/15 |url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/upload/weekly-list-2015-national-register-of-historic-places.pdf |access-date=November 12, 2017 |publisher=National Park Service}}

= Current bridge =

File:Rulo, Nebraska US159 bridge from Nebraska 1.JPG

In March 2009, Nebraska Department of Roads approved a plan for a new bridge, which would be {{Convert|650|ft}} south of the old bridge.{{Cite news |url=http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10579324 |title=New Bridge at Rulo is Approved |newspaper=Omaha World-Herald |date=March 5, 2009}}{{Cite news |url=http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10581899 |title=New Rulo Bridge Design Plans OK'd |newspaper=Omaha World-Herald |date=March 9, 2009}} The new Rulo bridge opened in 2013.{{cite news |title=Large crowd gathers to watch Rulo Bridge implosion |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106920810/ |newspaper=St. Joseph News-Press |date=January 20, 2014 |page=A5 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=August 4, 2022}}{{Cite news |last=Laukaitis |first=Algis J. |url=http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/span-of-historic-rulo-bridge-destroyed/article_edf0319a-d34a-56b7-a627-cd7918c24821.html |title=Span of historic Rulo bridge destroyed |newspaper=Lincoln Journal Star |date=2014-01-19 |access-date=2014-08-02}}

The bridge was indefinitely closed to all traffic in April 2019 as a result of the 2019 Midwestern U.S. floods. It reopened in September 2019 for access to Missouri Route 111, and the remainder of U.S. Route 159 was reopened in late October for access to Interstate 29.{{Cite news|date=September 6, 2019|title=US Rte 159 opened to Rulo, Nebraska|newspaper=KQ2.com|url=https://www.kq2.com/content/news/US-Route-159-now-open-to-Rulo-NE--559619861.html}}{{Cite web|date=September 6, 2019|title=NOW OPEN: U.S. Route 159 access to Rulo, Nebraska restored {{!}} Missouri Department of Transportation|url=https://www.modot.org/node/16649|access-date=2022-02-22|website=www.modot.org}}{{Cite web|date=October 31, 2019|title=NOW OPEN: U.S. Route 159 access to Rulo, Nebraska restored again {{!}} Missouri Department of Transportation|url=https://www.modot.org/node/17167|access-date=2022-02-22|website=www.modot.org}}{{Cite web|last=McKim|first=Nikki|date=2019-09-11|title=Rulo Bridge now open, but 159 in MO still closed|url=https://fcjournal.net/2019/09/11/rulo-bridge-now-open-but-159-in-mo-still-closed/|access-date=2022-02-21|website=Falls City Journal|language=en-US}}

References

External links

{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20000610134657/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/richards.htm Nebraska History entry]}}
[http://www.nebraskatransportation.org/projects/rulo-bridge/index.htm Nebraska Department of Roads Rulo Bridge Construction website]
[http://bridgehunter.com/ne/richardson/rulo/ Bridgehunter]

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|upstream = Rulo Rail Bridge

|upstream signs = BNSF Railway

|downstream = St. Joseph Swing Bridge

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Category:Buildings and structures in Holt County, Missouri

Category:Buildings and structures in Richardson County, Nebraska