Broken wooden bridge on Highway 97 closes road

Pictured is the steel beam that replaced the timber pile cap that was broken on the bridge over the North Loup River on Highway 97, 25 miles north of Mullen. courtesy of NDOT
Pictured is the steel beam that replaced the timber pile cap that was broken on the bridge over the North Loup River on Highway 97, 25 miles north of Mullen. courtesy of NDOT

The Mullen Nebraska Department of Transportation crew was doing some annual patching road maintenance last month on Highway 97 when they noticed that there was a slight dip in the bridge over the Nort…