This unique through truss swing bridge once carried the Chicago & North Western Railway over the Minnesota River and is among the oldest surviving movable bridges in the United States

New Ulm, Minnesota, Minnesota to Courtland, Nicollet County, Minnesota

Owner: Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited

Status: Open to traffic but used sparingly

Built 1880

by

Rust and Coolidge of Chicago, Illinois and Leighton Bridge and Iron Works of Rochester, New York

for

Chicago & North Western Railway

Design:
206' pin connected camelback through truss swing span and 2-130' quadrangular lattice through trusses

Description:
Historic through truss swing bridge over Minnesota River

Significance: