joe boardman, critical to the u.s. joe boardman: this is the achilles heel that we have on the northeast corridor. >> kroft: how much traffic goes over it every day? >> boardman: it's almost 500 trains a day. it's the busiest bridge in the western hemisphere for train traffic, period. >> kroft: and what kind of shape is it in? >> boardman: it's safe, steve, but it's not reliable. and it's getting less reliable. it's old. its systems are breaking down. there's an inability to make it work on... on a regular, reliable basis. >> kroft: boardman says the portal bridge is based on a design from the 1840s, and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. it's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. it takes about a half an hour. the problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis. and what kind of problems does that cause? >> boardman: it causes trains to stack up on both sides. and actually, when a train stacks up here, it can stack

we'll be helped in answering these questions by art historians like john boardman of the ashmolean museumoxford. we're used to looking at greek art this way, in museums, in this case, in a cast gallery, university of cambridge, where they've assembled these figures-- plaster casts of the more important greek and roman statues present in many museums in the world. the art historian and archaeologist try to work out the original settings of these figures-- what was in the artist's mind when he made them and the impact on the society for which they were made. there are several examples here which show the difficulty we have in making this adjustment. this figure, probably made in crete in the seventh century b.c, isn't unlike figures which might have been made in other cultures in antiquity, syria or egypt. only an expert would know the difference. it's not distinctively and obviously greek. there's another problem about it, too, which we have to adjust for. there were traces of color on it, and a duplicate cast has been colored up with what they think to be its original colors. it's a strik

and your name is boardman. isn't that weird that the amtrak guys name is boardman.board man. >> thank you for using our service. thank you. >> i love it. i'm using it again next week or the week after. >> joe, thank you. >> you bet. >>> okay. coming up, economic doomsday. we've got to talk about why some manufacturers are preparing for the worst. phil lebeau with some findings of a new report that will surprise you. we'll have that. plus the first revision of the gdp reports. and the latest outlook of the economy. and the ceo of expedia is going to be joining us. his read on what travelers can expect during the busy holiday travel season. "squawk box" returns in just a moment. >>> welcome back to "squawk box." are small manufacturers getting nervous about the economy? nine out of ten manufacturing groups pulling back their investments in new plants and capital equipment last quarter as they prepare for an economic slowdown. phil lebeau joins us now with more on that story. phil? >> hi, andrew. this information comes to us from pay net which has been tracking small l

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