Minnesota Friends
of Garden Railroad
and G Scale

CNW Tower Line Division

"Chicago & North Western viaduct over Des Moines River near Boone, Iowa" ca . 1902, aka "Kate Shelley High Bridge" 

Boone Viaduct "Kate Shelley High Bridge"

Quoting Darreck Lisle:

"As a child I once viewed this bridge from below. Looking up I was in awe of the majesty of her. That day I said that I wanted to build a model of it for my own model RR. Of course, Mom and Dad laughed and said I am sure you will. Well, the time has come.

I will be creating a series of articles that covers my journey to building this center piece for my Tower Line division of the CNW (Chicago and North Western). This bridge will be the transition from my Pole Barn fiddle yard and storage out to the ground level raised beds.

The Tower Line Branch is fictionally representing traffic from Omaha to Duluth. I will model [in 1:29 scale]:

• Sioux City, IA
• Worthington, MN
• Mankato, MN
• Shakopee, MN
• Duluth, MN"

Articles written by Darreck:

Kate Shelley High Bridge Build, Part 1

Kate Shelley High Bridge Build, Part 2

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