Keithsburg Rail Bridge (disused)
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Keithsburg Rail Bridge (disused) carries the M6 motorway 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 disused railway over the canal.
| Crescent Rail Bridge | 55.08 miles | |
| Sergeant John F. Baker, Jr. Bridge | 51.69 miles | |
| Muscatine Lock No 16 | 28.92 miles | |
| Norbert F. Beckey Bridge | 27.53 miles | |
| New Boston Lock No 17 | 9.28 miles | |
| Keithsburg Rail Bridge (disused) | ||
| Gladstone Lock No 18 | 18.26 miles | |
| Great River Bridge | 25.19 miles | |
| Burlington Rail Bridge | 26.26 miles | |
| Mississippi - Skunk Junction | 34.35 miles | |
| Fort Madison Bridge | 46.65 miles | |
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Wikipedia has a page about Keithsburg Rail Bridge
The Keithsburg Bridge was a vertical lift bridge that carried a single railroad track across the Mississippi River between Louisa County, Iowa and Keithsburg, Illinois.
The bridge was constructed for the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway in 1909 and traffic across the bridge was discontinued in 1971 by then owner Chicago and North Western, who had purchased the M&StL in 1960. After the line was abandoned, the vertical lift was locked in the up position for several years until the lift portion was accidentally destroyed by fireworks and the ensuing fire on June 21, 1981. The 220-foot (67 m) vertical lift section fell into the river blocking barge traffic on the main channel of the Mississippi River for more than a week until it was removed by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The USGS aerial photo from March 2000, and satellite mapping views taken since then, show the bridge standing but missing its vertical lift section.
This bridge replaced a previous Iowa Central railroad bridge, constructed in 1886 by the Phoenix Bridge Company, that crossed at the same location. As of 2014, the old stone piers from the previous bridge were still standing next to the current bridge.
