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Title: Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, Boone, Iowa, Kate Shelley High Bridge, Kate Shelley Memorial High Bridge, Boone High Bridge, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad viaduct, Boone Viaduct
Description: "Boone Viaduct over the Des Moines River, four miles west of Boone, Iowa, on main line of Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Length 2,685 feet. Height 185. 5,600 tons of Steel. Length of center span 300 feet. Largest Double Track Bridge in the World." --t.p. The Pratt deck truss bridge was built in 1899-1901, designed by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and constructed by the American Bridge Co. (Ambridge, PA). It is located in the Boone-Ogden Cutoff and crosses the Des Moines River at a point where the bluffs on either side are about 3000 feet apart. The bridge was nicknamed for the Iowa railroad heroine, Kate Shelley, also spelled Shelly. In 1881, when she was 17 years old, Kate Shelley risked her life to warn a passenger train by crossing the Des Moines River Bridge near Moingona at night, during a thunderstorm. Her goal was to warn the passenger train that the next bridge was out. That train had already been stopped. She then led rescuers to two men still in the swollen, flooded Honey Creek near her house, and they were saved. Her bravery was heralded in many newspapersListed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Date Created: 1905
PID: grinnell:13379

Title: Depot scene, Bremer, Iowa, Bremer Station
Description: Looking at a train pulling in to Bremer Depot with several men waiting on the platform with their bags. Bremer was a stop along the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railroad and the small community was never incorporated.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:14169

Title: Donahue [sic] or Cutler Bridge spans North River and completed 1871, Bevington, Iowa, Cutler-Donahoe Bridge
Description: Wooden covered bridge over the North River near Bevington, Iowa. Built in 1870 by Eli Cox of Ohio, the Cutler-Donahoe Bridge is a covered lattice through truss, 79 feet in length, and features a pitched roof. Originally located over the North River, it was moved to the Winterset City Park in 1970. Number 206-B.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:13873

Title: Frozen form pillars, Iowa River, Belmond, Iowa, Main Street Bridge
Description: Wintery scene of the frozen Iowa River looking at a Lost Pratt through truss bridge in the background. The bridge was replaced in 1977. 1908 postmark.
Date Created: 1908
PID: grinnell:14178

Title: Rock Island Depot, Belmond, Iowa, Western Union
Description: Looking northeast at the two story wooden railroad depot with train leaving the station. There is a a Western Union Telegraph sign on the building with a windmill and a silo in the background. Passengers are standing on the boardwalk. Number 5212.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:14179

Title: Station at Bellevue, Iowa, Illinois Oil Company
Description: Train on the tracks in front of two oil barrels and a plant building with Illinois Oil Company on it in Bellevue, Iowa. The Illinois Oil was begun by Frank Welch in the small Iowa town of Mediapolis, but he relocated to Rock Island in 1907 because of its proximity to the Mississippi River and railroads, according to the landmark application. 1914 postmark.
Date Created: 1914
PID: grinnell:13777