Friday, July 4, 2025

Rock Island Southern Trestle and then Lake Matherville Dam

(Satellite)

Retro Quad Cities posted
This photo showing a wooden trestle for the Rock Island Southern Railway, would eventually be backfilled and became the dam for Lake Matherville!!!
Mike Robinson: And I believe that a few miles more south on that line was one of the longest wooden trestle railroad bridges at the time. Located south of Gilchrist. I only heard it from old farmers in the area.
[Several comments provide newspaper clippings.]

Nick Barman commented on the above post
The original post card says building to aledo which is neat

1953/57 Matherville Quad @ 24,000 

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