Overall View Of Bridge And Missouri River. View To South
These photos from the Historic American Engineering Record were taken July 1985 by Clayton B. Fraser
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #123784
Additional note: The line was abandoned because of Rock Island's bankrupcy and the C&NW purchased their Des Moines to Kansas City route which was much more efficient and is still in use today.
This bridge was torn down in the late 80's when the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad abandoned the line into Leavenworth.
There is a display where the tracks used to come off of the bridge on the Leavenworth side. The bridge tender's building, which was later converted into the Chicago Great Western depot, appears to be in the same location. I posted a current photo of the bridge location in the photo section.