Keokuk Rail Bridge
Keokuk Rail Bridge carries a footpath over the Mississippi (Upper River).
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.
| Great River Bridge | 40.67 miles | |
| Burlington Rail Bridge | 39.59 miles | |
| Mississippi - Skunk Junction | 31.50 miles | |
| Fort Madison Bridge | 19.21 miles | |
| Keokuk Lock No 19 | 0.20 miles | |
| Keokuk Rail Bridge | ||
| Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge | 0.07 miles | |
| Mississippi - Des Moines Junction | 2.78 miles | |
| Canton Lock No 20 | 22.22 miles | |
| Mississippi - Wyaconda Junction | 28.91 miles | |
| Quincy Rail Bridge | 38.90 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Keokuk Rail Bridge
The Keokuk Bridge, also known as the Keokuk Municipal Bridge, is a double-deck, single-track railway and highway bridge across the Mississippi River in the United States between Keokuk, Iowa, and Hamilton, Illinois, just downstream of Mississippi Lock and Dam number 19. It was designed by Ralph Modjeski and constructed 1915–1916 on the piers of its predecessor that was constructed in 1869–1871.
Following the completion of the Keokuk-Hamilton Bridge, the upper deck of this bridge, on the Keokuk side, was converted to an observation deck to view the nearby lock and dam; this deck is no longer used for road traffic, but the lower deck is still used for rail traffic. The bridge was originally owned by the Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Company, but following financial problems in the 1940s, the bridge was given to the City of Keokuk in late 1948.
The bridge was originally the western terminus of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad. Today, it serves the Keokuk Junction Railway with occasional train crossings for interconnection and river terminal services. Only the Keokuk side of the highway bridge has been converted, the bridge's upper highway deck is abandoned. The river traffic (barges and boats) have the right-of-way, so the swing section remains open until a train needs to cross the river.
On the Illinois side of the bridge, two precast concrete barriers prevent auto traffic from driving on to the old highway section.
The bridge was documented as survey number IA-3 by the Historic American Engineering Record, archived in the Library of Congress.
