It's nice to learn this. I've never read about it. We learn something new everyday when we are at the right blog.
But I'm just wondering why they had to take that trouble. Couldn't all the engineers in the U.S just replicate the structure in their homeland? Or is there any particular significance of having to literally move the original bridge to the U.S? I'd like to know.
It does seem like too much trouble and work. They must have believed it would be a major tourist attraction. People visit it, but it can't be as popular as they had hoped when they moved the whole thing.