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Heavy lifting: $25.5 million Merrimac Bridge overhaul unlocks Sauk County’s economic engine

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Heavy lifting: $25.5 million Merrimac Bridge overhaul unlocks Sauk County’s economic engine


Kristina Boardman, secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation; Russell Roberts of the U.S. Department of Transportation; Marty Krueger, chairman of the Wisconsin River Rail Transit Commission; Tim McCumber, chairman of the Sauk County Board of Supervisors; Alan Anderson, chair of the Pink Lady Rail Transit Commission; State Senator Sarah Keyeski; and State Rep. Karen DeSanto are seen here near the Merrimac Bridge. (Submitted photo)

On a cold, bitter, misting spring morning, Wednesday, April 29, a locomotive stopped for show on the approach to the newly refurbished railroad crossing across Lake Wisconsin in the Town of West Point, just next to the Merrimac Ferry. It was to celebrate the ribbon cutting of that newly rehabilitated bridge.

 

 

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