Merchants Bridge

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Merchants Bridge
Carries Rail line
Crosses Mississippi River
Locale St. Louis, Missouri
Opening date 1889
Coordinates 38°40′29″N, 90°11′10″W

The Merchants Bridge is a rail bridge crossing the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri owned by the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis. It opened in May of 1889 and crossed the river three miles north of Eads Bridge.[1]

The bridge was originally built by the St. Louis Merchants Exchange after it lost control of the Eads Bridge it had built to the Terminal Railroad. The Exchange feared a Terminal Railroad monopoly on the bridges but it would eventually lost control of the Merchants Bridge also.

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  1. ^ Primm, James Neal (1981). Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company, 311. ISBN 978-1883982256. 
 
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