What Eads did was to offer to build a bridge that was quite revolutionary. Instead of a truss design, the conventional form for railway bridges at the time, he suggested building an arched bridge ...

During the building of James Eads' St. Louis Bridge, several of the construction workers digging out the riverbed from inside the caissons fell ill. An alarmed Eads shortened his men's working ...

The Eads Bridge, with texts by Petr C. Bunnell, David P. Billington, J. Wayman Williams Jr., John A. Kouwenhoven, James B. Eads. Catalog to an exhibition held at the Princeton University Art Museum, ...

The most recent strike occurred in the summer of 2022 along the Eads Bridge, when a barge broke loose upriver. “There was a barge that did come alongside one of the support structures.

I-44 will be closed in both directions from the Eads Bridge to the Stan Musial Memorial Bridge from Feb. 11-14. Wade explained crews will remove the bridge and ramp from the express lanes to Broadway.