Officially known as the Boone Viaduct when built back between the years of 1898 and 1901, the Kate Shelley High Bridge is one of the country’s longest and oldest double-track railroad bridges. Shelley risked her life during a thunderstorm in 1881, at 17 years old, to warn a passenger train of an upcoming bridge being out. The train had been stopped already, so Kate Shelley then went on that night to lead a rescue team to two men who were stranded near her home in the flooded Honey Creek. The bridge is located about three miles just outside of Boone.
Boone, IA 50036
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