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Caption: I've posted an image of this train before, a few years ago, but this shot I like because it shows the sheer depth of the Niagara River gorge at this point. Some have wondered why, since this bridge has been disused for 20 years, it has not been removed. Sure doesn't look like an easy job! Might as well leave it there for another 100 years............
B&O 4291 and 4173 are seen crossing into Canada at the typical time........sundown.......resulting in a difficult shot taken at 45th sec at f2.8. I was very lucky this photo even turned out. And it was shot exactly 40 years ago.........yesterday.
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Ah man…stunning!
Were you standing in a somewhat precarious perch to get that shot? I can’t imagine you were on the sidewalk of River Road. Excellent photo!
I can’t imagine how the track maintenance crew must have felt working high over the gorge.
No, I was behaving myself. Leaning over the barrier on the “tippy-toes”. Car was right there so I could race downtown and catch this thing at Clifton Hill as well. Not enough trains to let one go by without at least a couple of shots. I would imagine this is all heavily grown in these days.
It is a long way down. I would not trust myself without a barrier there.
Wow! and OMG forty years ago!
And the bridge is still standing today. Probably one problem with any attempted removal would be that each piece would have to be lifted out of the gorge – doubt you could float anything down through the Lower Rapids. Interesting that the original Suspension Bridge next door was dismantled successfully and re-constructed at Queenston to Lewiston – crossed the old Queenston lower level bridge on a school trip in a charter bus ages ago, could feel the bridge shaking So who owns the bridge – is it still CP Rail ? Who ever it is they probably don’t want to spend the money. Good picture, and like the way it shows the depth of the Gorge. Did that concrete retaining wall on the US side once hold up the Niagara Gorge electric railway ? John
I’m sure you are right about the wall down there, John.
The problem with removing the bridge was the $25,000,000 low-ball estimate to get that thing out of there back in 2002. A plan was then presented to convert the bridge to a dedicated International truck route, but that fell thru for some reason. So there it stands. Forever by the look of it.