106-year-old Dan Patch commuter rail bridge reaches the end of the line

The 106-year-old Quentin Avenue bridge in Savage, which once served the Dan Patch commuter rail line, will be taken down Wednesday.

The bridge is a local landmark and relic of a bygone era in Savage, which bears little resemblance today to the farming town where M.W. Savage kept his champion racehorse more than a century ago.

The Quentin Avenue bridge was originally built in 1923 for the Dan Patch commuter rail line, which once carried passengers from Northfield to Minneapolis…

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