Re: Historical Photo

From: KeithGD
Location: Logan, UT
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Remote Name: 129.123.63.33
Date: 02.26.07
Time: 10:38:58 PM

Comments

I think we're looking at the same part of the photo, but we're interpreting it differently. I still don't see a boat passing under a bridge and the bridge casting a shadow. The ends of the bridge seem to be resting on the quays, at ground level, too low to allow a boat to pass under the span. And what I see as lock gates look too dark to be just shadows from the bridge. (The bridge does cast faint shadows, but they are similar to those cast by the other spans, to the north.) Today, at the location we're discussing, there is a high-lift bridge with big, black towers at each end, but I don't see any towers in this picture. To me it looks like a swingbridge mounted on a narrow island or pier (what you see as a boat) in the middle of the channel, with barrier gates blocking the channel on each side of the pier. The gates cast shadows on the water very similar to those cast by the lock gates. Does anyone know what kind of bridge preceded the high-lift railroad bridge at this spot?