
Raising stone in 1882. A Winona and St. Peter Railroad construction crew poses at the trestle now known as the Arches. It’s aclassic 19th-century railroad bridge engineering. The bridge spans Peterson Creek and what then was Winona County Road 12, which later became Black and Yellow Trail, a tourist route to the Black Hills and Yellowstone Park, a.k.a. as U.S. 14. Now owned by the Canadian Pacific, the trestle carries two freight trains a day between Winona and the South Dakota border. Sepia image from archives: Kelly Beckman