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The Fort Madison Toll Bridge (also known as the Santa Fe Swing Span Bridge for the old Santa Fe Railway) is a tolled, double-decked swinging truss bridge over the Mississippi River that connects Fort Madison, Iowa, and unincorporated Niota, Illinois. A double-track railway occupies the lower deck of the bridge, while two lanes of road traffic are carried on the upper deck. The bridge is about 1 mile (1.6 km) long with a swing span of 525 feet (160 m), and was the longest and largest double-deck swing-span bridge in the world when constructed in 1927. It replaced an inadequate combination roadway/single-track bridge completed in 1887. The main river crossing consists of four 270-foot (82 m) Baltimore through truss spans and a swing span made of two equal arms, 266 feet (81 m) long. In 1999,

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  • Die Fort Madison Toll Bridge, auch Fort Madison Bridge, ist eine Doppelstockbrücke für den Eisenbahn- und Straßenverkehr über den Mississippi River. Sie verbindet Fort Madison im US-Bundesstaat Iowa mit in Illinois und führt auf den oberen Ebenen zwei Fahrstreifen der Illinois State Route 9 sowie auf der unteren Ebene zwei Gleise der BNSF Railway. Die Benutzung ist auf Straßenfahrzeuge bis 7,2 Tonnen begrenzt und in Richtung Illinois mautpflichtig, worauf das Wort toll im Namen hinweist (englische Bezeichnung für Maut). Eine erste kombinierte Eisenbahn- und Straßenbrücke entstand hier 1887 durch die Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF). Die eingleisige Fachwerkbrücke mit Drehbrücke führte damals die Fahrbahnen auf Auslegern an ihren Außenseiten. Mit der Entwicklung immer leistungsstärkerer und somit schwererer Dampflokomotiven Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts kam die Brücke zunehmend an ihre Belastungsgrenze und die AT&SF entschied sich Mitte der 1920er Jahre für einen zweigleisigen Neubau, der bis 1927 als Doppelstockbrücke ausgeführt wurde. Die integrierte Drehbrücke hatte bis zum Bau der neuen El-Ferdan-Brücke 2001 den längsten drehbaren Brückenträger der Welt. Die AT&SF ging 1995 in der BNSF Railway auf, die die seit 1927 nahezu unveränderte Brücke als Teil ihrer transkontinentalen Hauptstrecke zwischen Südkalifornien und Chicago für den Schienengüterverkehr betreibt. Zudem verkehrt der Amtrak-Fernzug Southwest Chief über die Brücke. (de)
  • The Fort Madison Toll Bridge (also known as the Santa Fe Swing Span Bridge for the old Santa Fe Railway) is a tolled, double-decked swinging truss bridge over the Mississippi River that connects Fort Madison, Iowa, and unincorporated Niota, Illinois. A double-track railway occupies the lower deck of the bridge, while two lanes of road traffic are carried on the upper deck. The bridge is about 1 mile (1.6 km) long with a swing span of 525 feet (160 m), and was the longest and largest double-deck swing-span bridge in the world when constructed in 1927. It replaced an inadequate combination roadway/single-track bridge completed in 1887. The main river crossing consists of four 270-foot (82 m) Baltimore through truss spans and a swing span made of two equal arms, 266 feet (81 m) long. In 1999, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places under the title, Fort Madison Bridge, ID number 99001035. It was also documented as survey number IA-62 by the Historic American Engineering Record, archived at the Library of Congress. Construction and photographic details were recorded at the time in Scientific American magazine. The bridge is the western terminus of Illinois Route 9 which continues eastwards towards Canton, Illinois, about 80 miles (130 km), and Peoria, about 100 miles (160 km). Iowa Highway 2 formerly reached the bridge from the west. On July 26, 1927, operations were transferred from the original single-track bridge to the current double-track bridge. The first opening for river traffic occurred at 11:58 a.m. on July 26, 1927, for the scow C. W. Howell, traveling downriver with no barges attached. The bridge is privately owned by BNSF Railway and is the river crossing for the Southern Transcon, BNSF's Chicago–Southern California main line. About 65 trains now cross the bridge each day, including Amtrak's Southwest Chief. Amtrak's Fort Madison station is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the bridge. Per Coast Guard regulations and the BNSF Fort Madison River Bridge operations manual, river traffic has the right-of-way over train and vehicle traffic on the bridge. Durations of openings vary depending on weather, river current, size and number of boats, and, occasionally, mechanical problems. A typical opening for a tow with 15 barges lasts 15–20 minutes. The bridge opens over 2,000 times per year, an average of more than five times per day. (en)
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  • Die Fort Madison Toll Bridge, auch Fort Madison Bridge, ist eine Doppelstockbrücke für den Eisenbahn- und Straßenverkehr über den Mississippi River. Sie verbindet Fort Madison im US-Bundesstaat Iowa mit in Illinois und führt auf den oberen Ebenen zwei Fahrstreifen der Illinois State Route 9 sowie auf der unteren Ebene zwei Gleise der BNSF Railway. Die Benutzung ist auf Straßenfahrzeuge bis 7,2 Tonnen begrenzt und in Richtung Illinois mautpflichtig, worauf das Wort toll im Namen hinweist (englische Bezeichnung für Maut). (de)
  • The Fort Madison Toll Bridge (also known as the Santa Fe Swing Span Bridge for the old Santa Fe Railway) is a tolled, double-decked swinging truss bridge over the Mississippi River that connects Fort Madison, Iowa, and unincorporated Niota, Illinois. A double-track railway occupies the lower deck of the bridge, while two lanes of road traffic are carried on the upper deck. The bridge is about 1 mile (1.6 km) long with a swing span of 525 feet (160 m), and was the longest and largest double-deck swing-span bridge in the world when constructed in 1927. It replaced an inadequate combination roadway/single-track bridge completed in 1887. The main river crossing consists of four 270-foot (82 m) Baltimore through truss spans and a swing span made of two equal arms, 266 feet (81 m) long. In 1999, (en)
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