The Chippewa Valley Line Archives

Pontoon Bridge

On July 20, 1900, a southbound train of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway crossing the Mississippi River at Mile Post 2,

near Reads Landing, MN.

Pontoon Bridge

On July 20, 1900, a southbound train of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway crossing the Mississippi River at Mile Post 2,

near Reads Landing, MN.

Pontoon Bridge

On July 20, 1900, a southbound train of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway crossing the Mississippi River at Mile Post 2,

near Reads Landing, MN.

Pontoon Bridge

On July 20, 1900, a southbound train of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway crossing the Mississippi River at Mile Post 2,

near Reads Landing, MN.

Pontoon Bridge

On July 20, 1900, a southbound train of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway crossing the Mississippi River at Mile Post 2,

near Reads Landing, MN.

Pontoon Bridge

On July 20, 1900, a southbound train of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railway crossing the Mississippi River at Mile Post 2,

near Reads Landing, MN.

Pontoon Bridge

Val Hoeser photographed the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul & Pacific Railway Pontoon Bridge on the Mississippi River at Reads Landing, MN on June 27, 1937.

Along The Chippewa Valley Line

Durand, WI

Chicago Milwaukee St.Paul Railroad, Engine #1271

Durand Depot 1900

Bridge 70.5

Railroad records indicate the first bridge constructed at this location was built in September 1938 and probably

was the last bridge created on the line. It was a 11 span, 152' pile trestle bridge and was erected because of a washout at a cost of $2,232.00. Riprap was added in 1940 from Dubuque and the Cut Stone Co. in Downsville.

Big Beef Slough

Train wreck at the Big Beef bridge around 1949. Before the track was laid, this slough carried millions of feet of white pine from northern Wis. to the Mississippi. Until the channel filled with sand in the 1890's this slough carried more water than the present day Chippewa River. (Savoy Landing was 4 miles down stream, a spot for steam ships to travel) Floods and erosion in the late 1930's ended the flow from the Chippewa. It is said that after that flood one could sit on the bridge with his feet in the sand.

Savoy

Logs being loaded onto flat cars at Savoy. 1901

Little Beef Slough

Bridge M66 at Little Beef Slough was originally a Howe Truss bridge and was replaced with this girder span bridge in 1913,

Knights Mile Post 7

Milwaukee Road officials survey the Chippewa Valley Line in 1938 at Bridge M30 Knights.

Bridge M32

Milwaukee Road officials survey the Chippewa Valley Line in April 1938 at Bridge M32.

Bridge M34

Milwaukee Road officials survey the Chippewa Valley Line in April 1938 at Bridge M34.

Engine #295

Near Durand, WI on the Chippewa Valley Line taken prior to September 1899.

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