SIOUX CITY BN MISSOURI RIVER BRIDGE IN SIOUX CITY, IA
Looking across a soybean field on the fertile flood plain. The 1888 railroad bridge indirectly expanded the metropolitan area, because the business leaders wanted competition for that bridge. They saw through to completion in 1889, the failed Pacific Short Line bridge, located about 2 miles upstream. (see Iowa attraction 52) It gave local businesses access to markets in northeastern Nebraska. Because it provided wagon, streetcar and pedestrian paths, it locally was referred to as the "Combination Bridge." Eventually expanding to a four lane highway bridge, it connected Sioux City physically -- and psychologically -- to South Sioux City and Nebraska markets. http://bridgehunter.com/ia/woodbury/pacific-short-line/
(submitted by Rich A. on 11/20/13)
