Originally spanning
Linn Branch Creek on the eastern outskirts of
Trimble, Missouri, the bridge was built from , which was an early standardized design of the famed engineer J.A.L. Waddell. It carried a
single-tracked segment of the
Quincy, Omaha, and Kansas City Railroad between
Plattsburg and Trimble. The structure was fabricated by the
Pencoyd Iron Works of
Philadelphia, and it operated in railroad configuration for over 40 years until the line was abandoned in 1939. before being marked, disassembled, and stored by
United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1980. The other surviving Waddell "A" Truss bridge spans the
Cross Bayou in
Shreveport, Louisiana. Now abandoned, the bridge once carried the
Kansas City Southern Railway across the bayou. It has been listed on the National Register as
Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge, Cross Bayou, and is recognized as a historic site by the City of Shreveport. ==See also==