Merchants Bridge

Merchants Bridge
Merchants Bridge
Carries Norfolk Southern, CSX, Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, Kansas City Southern
Crosses Mississippi River
Locale St. Louis, Missouri
Design Steel truss bridge
Opened 1889
Coordinates 38°40′29″N 90°11′10″W / 38.67472°N 90.18611°W / 38.67472; -90.18611

The Merchants Bridge is a rail bridge crossing the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri owned by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. It opened in May 1889 and crossed the river three miles (5 km) north of the Eads Bridge.[1]

The bridge was originally built by the St. Louis Merchants Exchange after it lost control of the Eads Bridge it had built to the Terminal Railroad. The Exchange feared a Terminal Railroad monopoly on the bridges but it would eventually lose control of the Merchants Bridge also.

See also

References

  1. ^ Primm, James Neal (1981). Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company. p. 311. ISBN 978-1883982256. 
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