| This four-span through-truss bridge was built in 1872 as part of the original railroad.
One of the major river crossings on the Green Bay & Western Lines was over the Wisconsin River. The Green Bay & Lake Pepin chose Grand Rapids (renamed Wisconsin Rapids in 1920) on the east bank of the river as the location for their crossing. Grand Rapids developed into the division point between the New London Division to the east and the Merrillan Division to the west, and a small yard and engine house were built here. The bridge was replaced in the 1980s by a deck plate girder bridge which allowed more vertical clearance for double-stack container cars coming from the Burlington Northern in East Winona.
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Postcard, dated 1909.
J.M. Colby photograph.
