Double decker swing bridge - Ft. Madison

Fort Madison is the site of the first U.S. Army fort west of the Mississippi. The Sata Fe Railroad Bridge is the world's longest double-deck swinging bridge. Trains went by at a minimum of every 10 minutes.  Sometimes one going one direction and another going the other direction and it went on all through the night.  Our docking fee was $0.  Good thing, too, because it would have been hard to get money out of me for that nights sleep or lack of.  Population of Ft. Madison is 12,000 with nearly 100 Victorian homes.

Part 1 of our passage through the Swing Bridge at Ft. Madison, IA

Part 2 of Swing Bridge at Ft. Madison, IA

And just for the record... Wicket has now fallen accidentally into the river once.  She smelled something, possibly a mink, around the dock at Ft. Madison and was so intent on catching up to it, that she lost track of where she was going and fell off the dock.  I was very happy that we just happen to have her attached to her leash.  Most of the time we just let her walk around loose on the dock since we are the only ones around after dark. So #1 and counting.