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CNW - Moingona Bridge (Old)
Photos
Cropped from Informational Plaque
Photo taken by John Marvig
BH Photo #345598
Description
This would be the bridge that Kate Shelley famously crawled over in the night.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Howe through truss bridge over Des Moines River on Chicago & North Western Railway
- Location
- Moingona, Boone County, Iowa
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Replaced 1894
- Railroad
- - Chicago & North Western Railway (CNW)
- Design
- Howe through truss
- Also called
- CNW - Des Moines River Bridge (Moingona, Old)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.01457, -93.92218 (decimal degrees)
42°00'52" N, 93°55'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/423644/4651805 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Boone West
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 15-08-U02x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 65732 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 28, 2015: Added by Luke
Hmmmm....
Found this old 1959 video that tells Kate's story. It includes photos of the original bridge, the successor bridge (as well as it's dismantling in 1933), and the K.S. High Bridge.
I think the western most span of the original bridge looks like a whipple.
Worth a watch, anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZBpn2mlhlA