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I liked the style of the old bridges much better then most of the new ones. Pictured is the St. Francisville Bridge on Missouri Route B, and Iowa Route 394 over the Des Moines River, between Clark County, Missouri, and Lee County, Iowa. According to the link I will provide, it is a Rigid-Connected Cantilever Through Truss Bridge. You can see more information about it here. There is some interesting information about it being a privately funded toll bridge and still remains to be the only one to this day. I did pay a one dollar toll to cross the bridge, but I'm not sure it is still a toll bridge.

This photo is from several years ago and I assume the bridge is still in use. You can see the new bridge in the background which carries traffic on Hwy 61 North and South. Hwy 61 has an interesting history and you can read about it here. I apologize for getting carried away (over the bridge and down the highway) with the information. At least on the old bridges, there was generally somewhere you could you could pull off to the side of the road and take a photo. Not necessarily the case with the new super highways and bridges. The Des Moines River pictured empties into the Mississippi River about 12 miles from the this spot as the canoe floats.