| Once an imposing combined road/rail swing bridge stood here, across which rolled vehicular traffic and the trains of the grand old Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific. The bridge remained intact for decades after the Rock shut down, being operated as a toll bridge until a bad section forced the owners of the bridge to cease operations. Age and decay eventually caught up to the venerable 1894 structure, requiing that it be mostly removed with half the piers and two sections retained as a pier on the Mississippi River. |