Merchants Bridge

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Merchants Bridge
Carries	Norfolk Southern, Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, Amtrak
Crosses	Mississippi River
Locale	St. Louis, Missouri
Design	Steel truss bridge
Total length	4,340 feet (1,320 m)
Longest span	518 feet (158 m)
Vertical clearance	83 feet (25 m)
Opened	1889
Coordinates	38°40′29″N 90°11′10″W / 38.67472°N 90.18611°W / 38.67472; -90.18611

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 1889 and crossed the river three miles (5 km) north of the 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 lose control of the Merchants Bridge also.

References

↑ Primm, James Neal (1981). Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-883982-25-6.

Crossings of the Mississippi River

Upstream
Chain of Rocks Bridge

Merchants Bridge

Downstream
McKinley Bridge

v t e Bridges, tunnels, and viaducts in Greater St Louis

Bridges	Bellefontaine Bridge Blanchette Memorial Bridge Chain of Rocks Bridge Clark Bridge Daniel Boone Bridge Discovery Bridge Eads Bridge Jefferson Barracks Bridge Lewis Bridge MacArthur Bridge Martin Luther King Bridge McKinley Bridge Merchants Bridge New Chain of Rocks Bridge Old St. Charles Bridge (now demolished) Poplar Street Bridge Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge (under construction) Veterans Memorial Bridge Wabash Bridge Washington Bridge

Tunnels	Lindbergh Boulevard Tunnel St. Louis Freight Tunnel Tucker Boulevard Tunnel (now disused)

Viaducts	Tucker Boulevard Viaduct 14th Street Viaduct 18th Street Viaduct Grand Boulevard Viaduct Hampton Avenue Viaduct Jefferson Avenue Viaduct Kingshighway Boulevard Viaduct Lesperance Street Rail Viaduct Poplar Street Rail Viaduct South Kingshighway Boulevard Viaduct Tucker Boulevard Viaduct Westbelt Rail Viaduct

Operators	Bi-State Development Agency Missouri Department of Transportation Illinois Department of Transportation Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis

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Merchants Bridge

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