Nostalgia & History > The old MoPac bridge at Osage, Mo.,...

...was a single-track bottleneck for many years. Long before Union Pacific significantly rebuilt the bridge over the Osage River, and decades before anyone in the state even suggested state-subsidy for passenger trains on this line, here is Amtrak train #31, the westbound "National Limited" crossing the old bridge and lift-span at Osage, Missouri, a few miles east of Jefferson City, September 22, 1974. Brand-new SDP40F 598 is in charge. Photo by David R. Busse.

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Nice picture -- looks a wee mite different now! I need to get back down there and see how the contractor is doing with the 2nd bridge!

I crossed that bridge on the National Limited several times in the 1970's.
When going to visit my sister in Kansas City.