Iowa TV Schooltime - Landmarks in Iowa History - Moingona, 1959

Host Herb Hake tells the story of how on a stormy July evening in 1881 Kate Shelley crossed the railroad bridge over the Des Moines River near Moingona, Iowa, to warn the station to stop the passenger train when the bridge over Honey Creek was washed out in a flood. This program originally aired in central Iowa as part of the Iowa TV Schooltime program. This program originally aired on WOI-TV in central Iowa in April 1959 as part of the Iowa TV Schooltime series of programming. This episode is part of the "Landmarks in Iowa History" series.

[@Negus222]

When he made that drawing at the end of a lantern out of two faces, that was strangely impressive.

[@2015Zoe]

i think I remember seeing this on tv then . I was bout 7.

[@robertlucido3686]

Why didn't they just leave the Des Moines river bridge in place when they took up the track

[@deepspire]

Often bridge components were (and are) reused. Also liability.

[@builderman912]

neat peice of history here

[@robertlucido3686]

They should make that abandoned railroad line a tourist railroad

[@tonypohlman3868]

Robert Lucido it is.

[@robertlucido3686]

I sorta ment the kind with an actual operating train running on the old right-of-way

[@matthewwolff3729]

Parts of it are now under highway 30.

[@Negus222]

Would be cool but they’d need to lay all new track and rebuild the bridges.