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Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad
We rode an afternoon train over the old Kate Shelley High Bridge when our son was small. He still had a bottle then, although he didn't after the train ride. He threw it out the window in his excitement looking at the valley below. They have a dinner train, also, although, I don't know if they run on the old tracks anymore or the new High Bridge now. Such a beautiful scene it was with the old bridge, but now it might be hard to get a picture of the valley without the new bridge.
Kate Shelley was a young girl who crawled across the valley on a bridge to warn the train that the bridge was out (not the bridge that was later named after her) and saved 200 lives doing so. Here's an excerpt from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Shelley
On the afternoon of July 6, 1881, heavy thunderstorms caused a flash flood of Honey Creek, washing out timbers that supported the railroad trestle. A pusher locomotive sent from Moingona to check track conditions crossed the Des Moines River bridge, but plunged into Honey Creek at about 11 p.m., with a crew of four: Ed Wood, George Olmstead, Adam Agar and Patrick Donahue.[6]
Shelley heard the crash, and knew an eastbound passenger train was due in Moingona about midnight, stopping shortly before heading east over the Des Moines River and then Honey Creek. She found the surviving crew members and shouted that she would get help, then started to cross the damaged span of the Honey Creek bridge followed by the Des Moines River bridge. Although she'd started with a lantern, it had failed, and she crawled the span on hands and knees with only lightning for illumination. Once across, she ran a half-mile to the Moingona depot to sound the alarm, then led a party back to rescue two of the engine crew survivors.[6] Wood, perched in a tree, grasped a rope thrown to him, and came ashore hand-over-hand.[7] Agar couldn't be reached until the flood waters began to recede.[7] Donahue's corpse was eventually found in a corn field a quarter mile downstream from the bridge, and Olmstead, the fireman, was never found. The passenger train was stopped at Ogden, Iowa, with 200 aboard.[2]
This link shows an old photo of the Kate Shelley High Bridge named after her after this incident:
I did enjoy taking some photos of the train yard and some old cars near here.
Boone and Scenic Valley Railroad
We rode an afternoon train over the old Kate Shelley High Bridge when our son was small. He still had a bottle then, although he didn't after the train ride. He threw it out the window in his excitement looking at the valley below. They have a dinner train, also, although, I don't know if they run on the old tracks anymore or the new High Bridge now. Such a beautiful scene it was with the old bridge, but now it might be hard to get a picture of the valley without the new bridge.
Kate Shelley was a young girl who crawled across the valley on a bridge to warn the train that the bridge was out (not the bridge that was later named after her) and saved 200 lives doing so. Here's an excerpt from wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Shelley
On the afternoon of July 6, 1881, heavy thunderstorms caused a flash flood of Honey Creek, washing out timbers that supported the railroad trestle. A pusher locomotive sent from Moingona to check track conditions crossed the Des Moines River bridge, but plunged into Honey Creek at about 11 p.m., with a crew of four: Ed Wood, George Olmstead, Adam Agar and Patrick Donahue.[6]
Shelley heard the crash, and knew an eastbound passenger train was due in Moingona about midnight, stopping shortly before heading east over the Des Moines River and then Honey Creek. She found the surviving crew members and shouted that she would get help, then started to cross the damaged span of the Honey Creek bridge followed by the Des Moines River bridge. Although she'd started with a lantern, it had failed, and she crawled the span on hands and knees with only lightning for illumination. Once across, she ran a half-mile to the Moingona depot to sound the alarm, then led a party back to rescue two of the engine crew survivors.[6] Wood, perched in a tree, grasped a rope thrown to him, and came ashore hand-over-hand.[7] Agar couldn't be reached until the flood waters began to recede.[7] Donahue's corpse was eventually found in a corn field a quarter mile downstream from the bridge, and Olmstead, the fireman, was never found. The passenger train was stopped at Ogden, Iowa, with 200 aboard.[2]
This link shows an old photo of the Kate Shelley High Bridge named after her after this incident:
I did enjoy taking some photos of the train yard and some old cars near here.