First, a police car with flashing lights appeared. It stopped in the middle of the bridge. Then an assembly wagon arrived on the tracks. A team of electricians disconnected the power from the overhead lines above the Bechyně railway. At 11 a.m., the long-awaited cargo appeared at the beginning of the bridge. A yellow Man tractor unit with a steamboat perched on its trailer.

One of the men from the escort appeared on the roof of the boat and kept watch to ensure that the vessel did not damage itself on the electric wires. The train slowly started moving and drove onto the bridge. The driver drove at walking pace. The steamboat slowly "floated" over the Lužnice valley and Bechyně. It took him almost five minutes to cross the bridge...