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Today
Today...while Indian Creek is covered and runs within concrete walls, the bridge at Frank St. is the same as for the past 50 years. The houses and garage at right are the same. Only the trees have changed. The old picture was identified and dated…
Tags: Bridges, Frank Street, Indian Creek
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 50 years ago, the old wooden bridge across an open Indian Creek at Frank St. was being replaced with a "modern" concrete bridge. Here is an old photo that's been in the Jeff Brunow family for many years.
Tags: Bridges, Frank Street, Indian Creek
Today...
Today...the bridge has dwindled in use. It is now a single track bridged used exclusively for river crossing of five or six freight trains a day. No pedestrian or auto traffic use the bridge. Only half of the bridge floor is floored with railroad…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is the Illinois Central drawbridge about the turn of the century, when pedestrians were permitted to cross it. A double track railroad bridge and one of the largest of its kind in the world, it was built across…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in the horse and buggy days, even before the electric cars ran into Fairmount Park, the deep cut near the Graham Ave. entrance looked like this. Sketch was made by Gail Connelly, park department employe [sic],…
Tags: Bridges, Faimount Park, Gail Connelly, Graham Avenue
Today...
Today...fast trains use the modern steel Union Pacific Railroad Bridge at approximately the same location. The bridge is above the reach of high water and boats pass underneath as they travel both up and down the deeper Missouri River.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This was a temporary Missouri River crossing of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1872. The bridge was raised above ice level on pilings. During the summer months railroad cars were reportedly ferried…
First Railroad Bridge and Train Over the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska
Drawing by frontier artist George Simons from the art collections of PACE.
Title on reverse side.
Title on reverse side.
Tags: Bridges, George Simons, Omaha, railroads
A good place to catch fish
The arched wooden footbridge sretching over Carter Lake provices an ideal resting spot for fishermne's poles on a nippy fall day. The men were pulling in a number of fish with hardly any effort. The roar of jets from nearby Eppley Airfield didn't…
Tags: Bridges, Carter Lake, fishing, footbridges
A shift in the Missouri and, voilà, Carter Lake
The 118-acre Carter Lake provides fishing and recreational opportunities--and a scenic backdrop--for Carter Lake and area residents. Paved walkways and wooden bridges facilitate pedestrian traffic around the lake which was formed as an ox-bow of the…
Tags: Bridges, Carter Lake
Broadway Viaduct
aerial photo of Broadway Viaduct, with concrete at 8th Street yet to be poured.
Tags: Bridges, Broadway Viaduct, construction, viaducts
Viaduct Work In Full Force; Prepare For Pouring Of Concrete Floor
Activity Buzzes...on Broadway Viaduct as carpenters and steel workers prepare for concrete work on west end of the span.,
Tags: Bridges, Broadway Viaduct, construction, viaducts
Broadway Viaduct
view of the side of the Broadway viaduct, showing concrete support tiers and structural steel.
Tags: Bridges, Broadway Viaduct, construction, viaducts
Start Sept. 10 On Steel Work; Broadway Viaduct Work On Schedule
The Broadway Viaduct..stretches from Eighth to Fifteenth Sts. as contractors prepare to set the structural steel of the two-million dollar project. Except for the structural steel work, the west approach ramp (bottom) is the only major part of the…
Tags: Bridges, Broadway Viaduct, construction, Jack Kennedy, viaducts
First Building Is Razed for Viaduct
Razing of Diamond Bar...is almost down to the first floor. The building is being demolished to make way for the Broadway viaduct.
Tags: Bridges, Broadway Viaduct, Diamond Bar, viaducts
Sells Property To State
George Steinberg has announced sale of Steinberg grocery at 1428 West Broadway to the state to make way for the Broadway viaduct. Sale pdice[sic] was $24,500, the figure set by the viaduct appraisal board;.
Broadway Viaduct
aerial view, looking west, of Broadway from about 7th Street.
"Air view of Council Bluffs, Oct. 21, 1950" [typed on back of photo]
"Air view of Council Bluffs, Oct. 21, 1950" [typed on back of photo]
Tags: Bridges, Broadway Viaduct, viaducts
Bridge (I-480) Over Missouri River
Bridge (Interstate 480) Over Missouri River, C.B. to Omaha