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Bill Pollard Collection |
Thie postcard was issued by the Missouri Pacific and has a postmark of 1918, 2 years after the bridge was opened. |
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Phil Gosney Collection |
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| Contributed by Hugh Teaford |
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Contributed by Eric Fleet |
| This is the view when driving across the Harahan Bridge. |  |
| Contributed by Hugh Teaford |
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Mike Condren Photo |
Contributed by Oliver Doughtie |
Builder's plate for Harahan Bridge, photo taken 5/83 |
2 Articles from Railway Age about the construction |
| Harahan Construction Plans |
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Phil Gosney Collection |
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Contributed by Bill Pollard |
| The complete story from Railway Age of the September 28, 1928 fire and required repairs. |
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Mike Condren Photo |
Westbound view of the tracks, 5/83 |
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Photo by Mike Condren |
Memphis railroad bridges from the west side of the Mississippi River. |
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Photo by Otto Perry, Contributed by Bill Strong |
Eastbound Rock Island freight exits the east portal of the Harahan Bridge, 6/50. |
The following sequence of photos is from the Arkansas side of
the Mississippi River and was taken by J.
Parker Lamb in 1954.
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An east bound Missouri Pacific freight is approaching
the Harahan Bridge over the Mississippi River. |
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In this view the MP FA1 FB-2 FA-1 trio is on the trestle
on the west end of the Harahan Bridge. For this photo Parker was standing
on the former roadway that also used the Harahan Bridge. |
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Here we see a matching pair of Cotton Belt F7s exiting
the east portal of the Harahan Bridge on its arrival in Memphis in 1954. |
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David Johnston Photo |
| Popsicle Treat (as it appears in the April 2005 Trains magazine) Cotton Belt's Memphis- Pine Bluff, Ark., freight MFPBY is a burst of color on April 1, 1978. In the lead are two of only four SP TE70-4S " popsicle" locomotive (U25Bs rebuilt in '78 by Morrison-Knudsen with Sulzer 8-cylinder engines). A Conrail GP40-2 trails, departing Memphis on the Harahan Bridge over a swollen Mississippi River. |
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