Employees of Morris Group of Birmingham, Ala., take out the last beam of the Washington Street bridge’s middle section 200 feet above Kansas City Southern Railway tracks. The 80-year-old Washington Street bridge at Clark Street began coming down Aug. 7 in preparation for its replacement by a roadway-topped rail tunnel expected to be completed by next summer. The span is the lone bridge along the main north-south corridor connecting downtown and Interstate 20, making its closure since January 2009 a problem for motorists and business owners along Washington Street. Kanzaa Construction of Tokepa, Kan., holds the $8.6 million contract for the project.