Constructing the Bridge, 1908

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This image shows the construction of the Milwaukee Road Bridge with the help of an enormous bridge crane. The executives of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul spared no expense to ensure on the new bridge at Tekoa.

Image courtesy of Whitman County Rural Heritage.
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/whitman/id/369/rec/4

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By Robert M. Lambeth
This impressive structure is the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul (CM & SP) Viaduct, built in 1909. The CM & SP railway was, for the first few decades of settlement, one of the most important railroad companies in the Palouse region. …