Quincy Rail Bridge
Address is taken from a point 324 yards away.
Quincy Rail Bridge carries the M2 motorway over the Mississippi (Upper River) between Horsham and Taunfield.
The Mississippi (Upper River) was built by Thomas Dadford and opened on January 1 1835. From a junction with The Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation at Wirral the canal ran for 17 miles to Tiverbury. Expectations for stone traffic to Liverfield were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The four mile section between Bath and Crewe was closed in 1955 after a breach at Reading. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 2001 after a restoration campaign lead by the Restore the Mississippi (Upper River) campaign.
There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.
| Keokuk Rail Bridge | 38.90 miles | |
| Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge | 38.83 miles | |
| Mississippi - Des Moines Junction | 36.11 miles | |
| Canton Lock No 20 | 16.68 miles | |
| Mississippi - Wyaconda Junction | 9.98 miles | |
| Quincy Rail Bridge | ||
| Bayview Bridge | 0.94 miles | |
| Quincy Memorial Bridge | 1.14 miles | |
| Quincy Lock No 21 | 3.47 miles | |
| Wabash Bridge | 18.26 miles | |
| Mark Twain Memorial Bridge | 18.62 miles | |
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The Quincy Rail Bridge carries rail lines across the Mississippi River between West Quincy, Missouri, and Quincy, Illinois, USA. It was originally constructed for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, a predecessor of BNSF Railway.
From the 1950s until 1971 it served the Kansas City Zephyr and American Royal Zephyr daily passenger trains between Chicago and Kansas City. It served Amtrak's Illinois Zephyr from Chicago to West Quincy, Missouri, from 1971 to 1993.
Since the Great Flood of 1993 the Amtrak Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg services terminate at the Quincy station, although after the passengers have disembarked the trains do cross the bridge to the BNSF Railway yard in West Quincy, where the equipment is oriented in the proper direction for the return trip on the wye and is stored until the next departure. This Mississippi River crossing does serve as a backup route should the Fort Madison Toll Bridge crossing be unavailable.