Tuesday, September 17, 2024

1923 BNSF/Santa Fe Dumas Bridge over Des Moines River near Argyle, IA

(Archived Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

MP Rail Photography posted
Amtrak number 4, the Southwest Chief, crosses over the Des Moines River as it heads eastbound on the BNSF Marceline Subdivision.
August 31, 2024
Revere, Missouri
Power:
AMTK 60 - P42DC
Terry Holt: that's at Dumas the bridge is what East enders called it. Revere is west of there. If it was on time probably around 1015am due in at Ft. Madison around 1055 or so Blind Note trying to figure out where you were standing when you shot this it's perfect!! you must have walked in on south side of tracks.
MP Rail Photography: Terry Holt, I used my drone!

MP Rail Photography posted
A Union Pacific priority intermodal train, running as F-GCIG4, crosses over the Des Moines River as it heads eastbound on the BNSF Marceline Subdivision.
August 31, 2024
Revere, Missouri
Power:
UP 6967 - SD70ACe
UP 5277 - AC45CCTE
UP 6267 - AC44CW
UP 8101 - AC45CCTE
UP 7259 - AC44CW


Rodney Harvey Flickr
Dumas Trainbridge
I got up yesterday morning way before sunrise to make my up to the most rugged and remote corner of our Clark County to an old railroad ghost town called Dumas. Population zero now. Only one house standing. A few cellars and foundations and a tunnel to drive under the train tracks. Sometimes inacessible. Dumas was born around 1880 when the railroad came through. History has it that some of the stranger happenings generate from this area. This is the train bridge where trains leaving Iowa cross the Des Moines River to start probable short trip through Clark County at 70 mph.

I used this map to determine where the Santa Fe crossed the Des Moines River.
1958/68 Burling Quad @ 250,000

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