Showing posts with label bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bridge. Show all posts

Linking the Keys






(Text: Library of Congress) On January 22, 1912, the nearly twenty thousand residents of the city of Key West, Florida, located on a small island some 128 miles south of the Florida peninsula, observed the completion of an overseas rail connection to the mainland. The Florida East Coast Railway served the island until 1935, when it was destroyed by a hurricane. It was replaced in 1938 by the Overseas Highway, built on the foundation of the old railroad bed. This system of forty-two bridges, which connects the Florida Keys to the mainland, is one of the longest over-water roads in the world. Continued

Union Pacific: Logan, NM


Trestle located in Logan, New Mexico, over the Canadian River - just a short drive north of Tucumcari, on U.S. Route 54.

MARC Train: Havre de Grace



PB&NE Overpass


The Philadelphia Bethlehem and New England Railroad (PBNE) is not the railroad it once was, a former subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel, the shortline has seen a considerable amount of downsizing, but it's still there, just smaller. The overpass has, I assume, been completely removed.

Sunrise over the Susquehanna


Amtrak (formerly PRR) bridge over the Susquehanna River, Havre de Grace, Maryland.

Foggy Bridge


I've always liked the birds in this picture. Taken at Harpers Ferry with a Sony F717.