Atchison railroad bridge
Thiophene_ Guy
See it large:
flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1086995138&context=set-7...
You have a good view of the Atchison railroad bridge from the nearby Amelia Earhart memorial bridge - until that is demolished in the near future. For now, it seems the railroad bridge will survive. This nineteenth century structure was designed to swing open (rotate), accommodating river shipping. One of the first bridges spanning the Missouri river, it charged a toll. Bridges at Kansas City were free - look what that did for them. Here is a look down the doomed bridge nearby:
www.flickr.com/photos/7726011@N07/1086995040/
Flickr group 'the same place, the other photographer' invites us to consider different compositional perspectives. Flickr user Lorcan Otway has a great look down the rusty deck of the bridge:
www.flickr.com/photos/lorcanotway/1187118061/
Sky-blu2 has a view from the other side and indicates demolition of the adjacent span begins in 2009.
www.flickr.com/photos/tbachm1/1263008848/
See it from the sky: Click on "map", then select "hybrid".
(Scanned Kodak Tmax 400 film, shot with a Voigtlander Bessa found on ebay.)
Addendum: added as the archival image to Utata's "from above" project.
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