Union Pacific Bridge Carries Transcontinental Traffic

Union Pacific Bridge Carries Transcontinental Traffic

Local news

Over the Union Pacific bridge, pictured in the foreground above, passes the nation's transcontinental traffic. The bridge carries the passenger trains and most of the freight trains of all railroads between Council Bluffs and Omaha. In the background is the bridge of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company, which carries street car and vehicular traffic between the two cities.--Nonpareil Engraving.

This photograph is also used in another Daily Nonpareil article titled "Council Bluffs Lost Union Pacific Headquarters in a Fight Over Railroad Bridge," from October 8, 1939. The caption reads "Key to the western section of the United States is this present bridge over the Missouri river between Council Bluffs and Omaha. It's the Union Pacific bridge that carries all trains from the terminal bottleneck into Nebraska."

Nonpareil photos

Daily Nonpareil July 26, 1936
Daily Nonpareil October 8, 1939

Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

1936-07-26
1939-10-08

Black and white photograph

Photograph

Union_Pacific_Locomotive_File1_7_26_1936_001.jpg

Council Bluffs, Iowa

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English

Photograph

35.5 cm x 14 cm