Appropriately for Independence Day, a covered footbridge originally built in 1775, just a year before we declared our independence from Great Britain. And my...
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xploreusa@...
xploreusa
Jul 4, 2012 10:42 pm
Hi Brenda, keep the posts coming on your bridge blog, as I like it! I looked back on some of your bridge blog posts, and I liked the one on the Notre Dame...
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tipa16384
Jul 5, 2012 10:21 am
This little early 19th century stone bridge was once an important gateway to the Great Plains. Really. A couple of weeks ago, looking for this bridge, I...
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tipa16384
Jul 5, 2012 12:05 pm
The bike is a Trek FX7.5 with disk brakes. I wanted a bike that could get through mud and snow and rain and still get me home. It's a solid bike, but it cost...
Very sad to see that story of the couple who died during the train derailment/bridge collapse. Here was another interesting article related to the bridge...
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Stephen Taylor
backtotexas2000
Jul 7, 2012 3:02 pm
I think when the NTSB releases their final report we'll find that what prompted that derailment was a sun kink in the rails. Rails have to be at a distance of...
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tipa16384
Jul 7, 2012 4:25 pm
Hop River State Park Trail Bridge. The name is as long as the bridge, which took over a decade to build and place. ...
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John Spafford
jcspaff
Jul 8, 2012 7:37 am
Do you have some issue with the Chicago Sun-Times Stephen? I noticed you called it the "Slum-Times." I'm not from Chicago so can't speak to it's editorial...
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tipa16384
Jul 8, 2012 1:14 pm
It's the longest suspension bridge in New England, featured on the reverse side of the Rhode Island commemorative quarter and the main road in and out of...
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Patrick S. O'Donn...
suspensionst...
Jul 8, 2012 1:58 pm
Hi Brenda,  I've been enjoying you blog posts here to Many Spans. Of course your recent post being a suspension bridge got my attention. I see your...
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Alessandro
riseoftheants
Jul 9, 2012 6:56 am
Some of my best shots of the same bridge, taken years ago (with the GPS coordinates of the shooting location): [from SW] ...
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tipa16384
Jul 10, 2012 11:05 am
Patrick, love this really oblique shot of the Pell Bridge of yours: http://www.flickr.com/photos/suspensionstayed/2808441578/in/set-72157607008475673/ I didn't...
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tipa16384
Jul 10, 2012 11:10 am
Alessandro; those are beautiful! I noticed for one of your pictures, we were standing in nearly the same spot. That's neat :) How did you come to take the...
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Alessandro
riseoftheants
Jul 10, 2012 12:34 pm
From: "tipa16384" <brendahol@...> Date: Tuesday 10 July 2012 07:10 ... Thanks, I was quite lucky with the weather: almost no haze. ... There are only so...
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tipa16384
Jul 11, 2012 11:51 am
Amazing picture of Throgg's Neck Bridge; the high vantage point gets the curve of the approach. I'm not a fan of the Bronx Whitestone Bridge, not to drive on,...
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tipa16384
Jul 11, 2012 11:52 am
The Providence River Bridge is one of the few network arch bridges in the world. It wasn't built in Providence, though -- it started its life fifteen miles...
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Alessandro
riseoftheants
Jul 11, 2012 7:28 pm
From: "tipa16384" <brendahol@...> Date: Wednesday 11 July 2012 07:51 Same flight, 2 years later, earlier in the day, bigger zoom, cleaner window, better...
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tipa16384
Jul 15, 2012 11:20 am
The Mid-Hudson Bridge was only the second suspension bridge over the Hudson, and the only bridge that has been used as a musical instrument.... ...
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Patrick S. O'Donn...
suspensionst...
Jul 15, 2012 11:46 am
I think it mentioned somewhere that this is the Bridgemeister's favorite bridge. ;-)  Nice job Brenda! I especially like the bicycle in the shot and the...
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tipa16384
Jul 15, 2012 12:33 pm
I would love to take the bike to other cities and just ride around and see the bridges and other sites. NYC and Boston are the two nearest me -- I'm right...
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xploreusa@...
xploreusa
Jul 15, 2012 1:08 pm
A dream ride: Take your bike with you on the Pennsylvanian from Penn Station to Pittsburgh, and ride/look at the spectacular bridges in Pittsburgh; next hop on...
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tipa16384
Jul 16, 2012 12:31 pm
Oh wow :) That would be the second best vacation ever -- second only to a bike tour of Europe!...
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Robin
robinoregon_...
Jul 19, 2012 5:55 pm
Last year you were kind enough to allow me to let you know about our bridge book, now I have finally created a trailer that shows how the cable locking system...
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tipa16384
Jul 20, 2012 1:41 am
I happened across these bridges on the way to somewhere else. They aren't historically important or anything, just beautiful. ...
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Karl Stull
kstull...
Jul 20, 2012 11:32 am
Two lovely bridges. In the Baltimore truss bridge, those rectangular plates in the overhead structure make an appealing visual pattern - like baroque...
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tipa16384
Jul 20, 2012 9:13 pm
When I said I was taking vacation this week, the people at work said they expected to see lots of pictures of bridges. They know me so well, and of course I...
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tipa16384
Jul 20, 2012 9:17 pm
I was totally blown away by both the bridges. There's other pictures of these bridges all over Flikr and such, usually with the title "ruined bridge" and stuff...
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tipa16384
Jul 22, 2012 7:04 pm
This rare "double web" Town truss covered bridge was used for almost thirty years as a warehouse.... Today it has been restored and is the centerpiece of the...
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tipa16384
Jul 29, 2012 11:01 am
Another bridge best seen from a bicycle :) This one not far from where I grew up before we moved to New Hampshire. ...
