Crescent Rail Bridge
Address is taken from a point 241 yards away.
Crescent Rail Bridge carries a farm track 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.
| LeClaire Lock No 14 | 12.81 miles | |
| Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge | 4.89 miles | |
| Rock Island Lock No 15 | 1.87 miles | |
| Arsenal Bridge | 1.75 miles | |
| Rock Island Centennial Bridge | 0.80 miles | |
| Crescent Rail Bridge | ||
| Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge | 3.39 miles | |
| Muscatine Lock No 16 | 26.16 miles | |
| Norbert F. Beckey Bridge | 27.55 miles | |
| New Boston Lock No 17 | 45.80 miles | |
| Keithsburg Rail Bridge (disused) | 55.08 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Crescent Rail Bridge
The Crescent Bridge carries a rail line across the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois. It was formerly owned by the Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway, a joint subsidiary of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, which was split in 1995 between then-joint owners Burlington Northern Railroad and Soo Line Railroad, with BN getting the bridge and the Illinois-side line, and Soo Line getting the Iowa-side line. Since then, after spinning off its lines in the area to I&M Rail Link, later Iowa, Chicago and Eastern Railroad (a subsidiary of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad), the lines were repurchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway, parent of the Soo Line. Meanwhile, BN has merged into the BNSF Railway, the current owner of the bridge.