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NELSON POINTS OUT IOWA BUILT TONS OF BRIDGES IN THE 1950S. 60S 70 AND EVEN 80S. SOME ARE EVEN OLDER. KCCI VISITED A RARELY USED BRIDGE THIS WEEK, THE HARVEY RAILROAD BRIDGE IN RURAL MARION COUNTY.
in 1869 supposedly marked the completion of the transcontinental railroad, it was in fact not finished until 1872 when the Union Pacific bridge connected milepost 0 in Iowa with Nebraska.
QUAD CITIES, Iowa (KWQC) - The number of trains passing ... “You’re going to have the noise of what an 8,000 foot train carries with it,” he said. “But the trains have been there since ...
This story is part of Iconic Train Journeys ... take a walk over the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge, half of which belongs to Iowa. The Zephyr departs Omaha just before midnight.
Iowa might not be the first place that springs to mind when ... This towering structure, among the highest single-track railroad bridges in the country, is an engineering marvel. The sheer height ...
But on Sunday, June 23, the bridge began collapsing due to the record flooding being seen across Northwest Iowa. On that day, the South Dakota side of the railroad bridge began collapsing late ...
As heat and flooding scorched and scoured the Midwest, a steel railroad bridge connecting Iowa with South Dakota collapsed under surging waters. In Lewiston, Maine, a bridge closed after the ...
On the morning of the blast, reporters watched from the riverbank behind the Sioux City Railroad Museum ... Santa Fe Railway bridge destroyed by floodwaters in northwest Iowa.
(KSCJ photo) Work began this morning to remove a railroad bridge in Sioux City that collapsed ... McBeth says they’ll set off charges on the span on the Iowa side of at a future date.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Floodwaters breached levees ... where the surging Big Sioux River flooded homes and destroyed a BNSF railroad bridge, local residents gawked Monday as the waters edged ...