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The Eads Bridge is a combined road and railway bridge over the Mississippi River connecting the cities of St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois.It is located on the St. Louis riverfront between Laclede's Landing to the north, and the grounds of the Gateway Arch to the south.
The Downtown Tunnel, [1] sometimes referred to as the St. Louis Freight Tunnel, [2] is a historic railroad tunnel beneath Washington Avenue and Eighth Street in downtown St. Louis. Completed in 1874, it carried freight and passenger trains between the Eads Bridge and the rail yards in the Mill Creek Valley, bypassing busy
Eads Bridge: 1867, 1874 1966-10-15 St. Louis St. Louis City: Cantilever deck arch ... Open spandrel arch Y bridge Swan Creek Bridge: 1914, 1932 1983-09-08 removed ...
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East Riverfront is a light rail station on the Red and Blue lines of the St. Louis MetroLink system. [2] This elevated station was built on a reconstructed viaduct east of the historic Eads Bridge near the East St. Louis, Illinois riverfront. The station is popular with Illinois commuters and has a park and ride lot with 295 spaces.
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Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned [1] American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 patents. [2]Eads' great Mississippi River Bridge at St. Louis was designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior in 1964 and on October 21, 1974 was listed as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American ...