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Close-up of the high bridge Chicago & North Western Railroad bridge near Boone, Iowa. The bridge, the longest and highest two-track bridge in the world, was named the Kate Shelley Bridge to honor the woman from Moingona, Iowa, who, at the age of fifteen on July 6, 1881, was responsible for rescuing two men whose train had fallen into Honey Creek near her family's home. She had crawled across the single-track high bridge and run half a mile to the Moingona depot to try to get help for the men and to alert an oncoming large passenger train coming from the west that that the Honey Creek bridge it was to cross had been washed out by torrential rains. This bridge, constructed in 1900/01, replaced the single-track high bridge that Kate Shelley crossed on her heroic journey.