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Caption: Marker detail: CB&Q R.R. Bridge
Additional Description: The first iron bridge across the Mississippi was completed in 1868 with funds and labor from the CB&Q. Prior to building the bridge, a ferry was used to provide connecting service from the CB&Q across the Mississippi River to the Burlington and Missouri Railroad. During reconstruction of the bridge in the early 1890s, a second track was added. Note the stacks of fresh cut lumber at the Burlington Lumber Company's drying yard. Burlington was an important location for sawmills due to the logs rafted down the Mississippi from Minnesota and Wisconsin. The lumber yard site in the photo is where The Wastewater Treatment Plant is now located.
Submitted: December 29, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p766654
File Size: 2.093 Megabytes

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