"It is the longest crossing of its kind in the West and exclusively highway in character." When the swing span of the IC+CGW railroad bridge is opened, it swings under the cantilever span of the high bridge. [Bridge Hunter] This bridge was replaced in 1943 by the Julien Dubuque Bridge, which is further downstream.
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| Flickr 1897, No known copyright restrictions IC. R. R. Co. Bridge. Diamond Jo Grain Elevators. THE HIGH BRIDGE FROM THE IOWA SHORE. Image from page 49 of "Dubuque and its neighborhood" (1897)Identifier: dubuqueitsneighb00harg Title: Dubuque and its neighborhood Authors: Harger and Blish, [from old catalog] comp Subjects: Publisher: Dubuque [Hardie & Scharle] Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation |
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| Photo provided by Hank Zaletel via Bridge Hunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) Flickr |
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| EncyclopediaDubuque C. L. Strobel was chosen to design a pontoon bridge at this location. But he suggested a high bridge that would not need a movable span. So the plan to build a pontoon bridge changed to a plan to build a high bridge. I've seen the date of 1886 for this bridge, but that is when the money was raised. The first teams crossed the bridge on Nov 25, 1887. |
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| Digitized by Google, p484,485 |
Most of the old aerials of Illinois were taken in the late 1930s so I was surprised to see the Julien Bridge instead of the Wagon Bridge. Then I noticed that the date for this photo was 1947.
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| 1947 Aerial Photo from ILHAP |
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