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BN-IC Switching Tower in Louisiana, MO 1976389 viewsIn the background you can see the swing bridge over the Mississippi. The BN line runs left-right in the foreground, IC runs over the bridge.
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BN-IC Switching Tower in Louisiana, MO 1976393 viewsThis tower guarded the Burlington Northern and Illinois Central diamond on the outskirts of Louisiana.
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KCS & BNSF diamond at Louisiana, MO353 viewsWith the tower now gone, and the trees cut back. Bunge Feed elevator is at the right, the swing-bridge over the Mississippi is at the left. Track heading to the right goes to Bowling Green, and the track coming towards the camera is the BN track heading north.
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BNSF & KCS diamond, looking SE190 viewsThis view of the diamond shows the BNSF tracks heading south to the Bunge feeds elevator, while the KCS heads east over the swing bridge.
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IC Swing Bridge, Louisiana, MO, 1976345 viewsThe swing bridge in Louisiana, MO. There is still an operator who walks out to the control room every day to swing the bridge when river traffic approaches.
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IC Swing Bridge, Louisiana, MO, 1976339 viewsA view of the venerable swing bridge crossing the Mississippi. An operator sits in the bridge all day and opens the span when river traffic approaches. It was still this way in 2012.
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IC Swing Bridge, Louisiana, MO, 1976407 viewsSpan has now been swung open for river traffic.
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IC Swing Bridge, Louisiana, MO, 1976390 viewsTug Jesse Brent passes through the spans of the swing bridge in Louisiana, MO.
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Swing bridge in operation201 viewsSpan open wide to allow a tug through
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Swing bridge and Illinois181 viewsKCS swing bridge spans the Mississippi, this view is looking east at Illinois
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Old swing bridge gear mechanism 189 viewsIn 2012 the KCS replaced the swing bridge gear mechanism, here are the old gears lying next to Hwy 79.
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KCS swing bridge176 viewsThe Chicago & Alton Railroad built the original bridge in 1873, and sold it to the B&O Railroad in 1929. B&O sold it to the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio in 1945. GM&O became Illinois Central Gulf in 1972, and then acquired by the Chicago, Missouri, and Western in 1987...which became the Gateway Western (1990), and now Kansas City Southern (2001).
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KCS swing bridge180 viewsWhen it was built, the 444 ft swing span was the largest in the nation.
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KCS swing bridge173 viewsOriginally built by the Chicago & Alton in 1873 as one of the first 15 bridges across the Mississippi. It was rebuilt in 1898 on the 1873 piers.
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Hercules chemical plant200 viewsOriginally built as the Missouri Ordnance Works in 1941, this plant produced chemicals for explosives used in WWII ordinance. Over the past few years the plant has slowly ceased most of its operations, in 2011 Ashland sold the plant to Monument Chemicals who state they will continue producing synthetic lubricants there.
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