Why were the CNW bridge and waterfront station at Winona torn down? Was it because of the collapse of the CNW tunnel at Tunnel City?
Passenger stations were obsolete even before passenger service disappeared. Just a liability. The tunnel collapse just meant that the C&NW detoured (permanently) over the Milwaukee for a distance. Joe Q: My friend noticed that there are stone bridges along the Winona & St. Peter and the Elroy-Sparta route (another reason he thinks the two lines were originally constructed to be one) and asked if the traffic was heavy enough along that route to warrant stone construction. (My thought is that the line would have been built early enough for the engineers to have clung to the same original bridge-building dogma that the B&O engineers held 30-40 years earlier. Your opinion?) A: The C&NW generally used Standard Bridge designs. We have plans for most of the timber-Standard-designs. But Stone bridges probably had to be modified for the site in some cases. The Winona & St. Peter was essentially independent when it was constructed, but soon came under C&NW influence. For a better answer, he need
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