The Old Folks Home

[Kusanar]

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Lol, when I would go to visit my ex's family, his cousin had a square marked in sharpie on her bedroom window, apparently, if you put your phone in the square, you had signal, anywhere else in the house or even anywhere else on the window, no dice... lol we fought over that square a few times...

 

[Alaskan]

Bunny it is an old bridge along the path.  I'm not really sure what it was used for.  It is near live train tracks and there was another set of cement/rock structures nearby that seemed to be more bridge abutments but only on one side of the stream.  I think SCG tried to figure out what they were used for in the past but couldn't find it.  It is slowly rotting away.  I don't think anyone is working on it.

lady do you not have any of those bridges near you? Look just like that, but add wood planks to make it driveable. The wood has rotted away... And there you go.

 

[dsqard]

I am pretty sure Al has the right of it. I found another picture of it before it was overgrown and it looked like it used to be for traffic not trains. The "roadbed" was missing in the other picture too but it probably was wood.

 

[Bunnylady]

lady do you not have any of those bridges near you? Look just like that, but add wood planks to make it driveable. The wood has rotted away... And there you go.

Wooden bridges, no. They just don't last in this climate - if the upper parts are metal, the deck is at least concrete. I know they used to make bridge decks of wood, but I've also heard that unless they were covered, they wouldn't last - I have seen one old covered bridge in the mountains, but that's the only one. All wood, stone, or steel and stone, those I'm familiar with; the possibility of a wood deck seemed obvious, but I've never seen the various technologies combined like that.

 

[Alaskan]

Here is a photo of the local bridge that looks just like that...but is currently in use.

Someone elses photo, NOT mine:

(Cant see the wood ... But the part you drive on is wood)

 

[pennyJo1960]

there is this really cool one lane bridge before you reach Cinebar coming
508 towards our home it is called the back way starting at Onalaska
anyway there is coolest on a state highway next time we travel
that way I will have my BF stop so I may take a photo

 

[Bunnylady]

This is a one-lane bridge here in Wilmington. Over a century old, it was built to span a railroad cut. In its current state, it is considered structurally deficient and functionally obsolete . . . but it still has a concrete and asphalt road deck. I understand it has gained some fame due to a certain TV series that was filmed here.

 

[perchie.girl]

abandoned train bridge turned into a home

http://www.wideopencountry.com/abandoned-train-bridge-now-cozy-dream-home/

 

[pennyJo1960]

@perchie.girl beautiful place love how they did it

 

[Alaskan]

I just asked a breeder if his pens are still set up.


Said I wanted to buy 2 dizen eggs.






The kids made me.