BNSF/CB&Q Bridge over Rock River at Oregon, IL

(Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

You don't see a lot of cute little truss bridges with cut-stone piers on Class I railroads anymore.

Steven J. Brown posted
Dennis DeBruler According to a satellite image, https://www.google.com/.../@42.0009365,-89.../data=!3m1!1e3, the bridge still has these trusses. Railroads don't get the 80% Federal funding that new road bridges get, so they maintain their truss bridges. This bridge even still has its cut-stone piers.

Steven J. Brown posted
Milwaukee Road 261 is on the BNSF crossing the Rock River at Oregon, Illinois - June 20, 2002.
Larry J. Pearlman So where were you standing to get this???
Steven J. Brown On the hill...
Bill Neill shared

Steven J. Brown posted
Amtrak Empire Builder #8 crosses the Rock River at Oregon, Illinois - August 1994. Due to a strike on the Canadian Pacific, the Empire Builder was rerouted onto the BN C&I route through Illinois.
Andrew James Gray Did they go right to La Crosse?
Steven J. Brown I think they went straight to the twin cities.