Need a bridge over a creek
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Thats impressive - can you imagine how many men were involved in that construction?
It was probably way over built since it was 1933 and most things were built "hell for stout" then, but I can't imagine being the engineer in the first train going over it. Be like an astronaut going to the moon!!
It's a well-known Illegal alien from Mexico transverse hiway circuit. Probably built by Americans, and Mexican ancestors to the illegals. They may say: "Great grandpa Juan built this". OR
"bisabuelo Juan construyó este".
"bisabuelo Juan construyó este".
It's in the desert. I know it well. There haven't been real trees there, for miles and miles, for centuries.No wonder there aren't any trees left around there!
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That sort of thing was very common during the civil war on military RR’s. Here’s a replacement bridge of one which had been blow-up…
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We have one like this close by me except it's made with metal. As a teen, I got caught in the middle when a train came. Scared the crap outta us guys as we ran for the end just like on the movie Stand By Me. We also have a very long train tunnel that I got caught in when a train came and had to run along the wall in pitch blackness feeling for a cubby hole to duck into. The stupid things we did as kids....
Yep…that’s how I finally got the courage to jump off the trestle into the Caddo River at Glenwood, AR…. I’d always wanted to be brave like the teenagers did … but fear of the train got me over fear of the height above the water…
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Yep…that’s how I finally got the courage to jump off the trestle into the Caddo River at Glenwood, AR…. I’d always wanted to be brave like the teenagers did … but fear of the train got me over fear of the height above the water…
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Where I live, we claim to be the limestone capital of the world and with that, we have active and inactive limestone quarries practically everywhere. As a kid, that's where we all hung out during the summers. You would walk up to a popular one on a hot summer day and there would be 50 to 100 teens swimming or laying out on the giant cut slabs stacked on top of each other. Ledge jumping was a popular past time with the highest ledge being 67' above the water. I have jumped and even dove off of that ledge so many times. It can be scary though as you have to clear the step-down ledges on the way down. Sometimes I wonder how I ever made it through my younger years!
On a side note - some of the best fishing I've ever done has been in those quarries....
Hey, I know the feeling. I learned to swim in the falls in Sioux Falls. I look at those now on post cards and wonder why I am alive! https://www.experiencesiouxfalls.com/listing/falls-park
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