Did you know that when the (first) Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, there was no connection between Omaha and Council Bluffs? A bridge wouldn’t be built for three years.
The story of that bridge, and how it took a whole bunch of legal work for Council Bluffs to be confirmed as the first eastern terminus of the Union Pacific, is covered in my Substack post.
As always, this is part of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, which has added some new writers in the past couple of months.