Name that bridge!

[Ryan]

I occasionally post pictures that I run across of cool stuff from Shorpy, which is a website that publishes high res scans of old pictures that frequently features railroad content.

Today's post is of an unknown bridge that I'm sure someone here can ID:

http://www.shorpy.com/node/15421

 

[The Davy Crockett]

Nice pic, but notice the caption.

Freight operations on the Chicago & North Western R.R.... (emphasisi added)

Okay, my eyes are not what they use to be :blink: , but those don't look like freight cars to me. :wacko:

 

[Ryan]

At least it isn't "cargo operations"!!!

 

[Everydaymatters]

That's the bridge over the Mississippi River crossing from Illinois into Iowa along Route 30. The bridges are turned when the river floods. I've crossed parallel to those tracks on Rt. 30 about 100 times when my parents lived in Clinton, Iowa. Now I go about once a year. My godfather was the yardmaster at the CNW yards in Clinton.