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08-09-2022, 09:30 AM   #2401
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Edit: funny, but in the quote I see that it is indeed on the River walk! Thank you for posting!Wait, now it’s gone!?! Oh well, nice photo!!
Glad you liked it - and I believe the Riverwalk is still there

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Shieldstown covered bridge, near Seymour, Indiana
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Medora covered bridge, near Seymour, Indiana
Why did they box the bridge in? It does not appear to be for a structural reason. I gather this was not uncommon in the USA (thinking of the film, The Bridges of Madison County, which starred Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep and a Nikon F2).
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Why did they box the bridge in? It does not appear to be for a structural reason. I gather this was not uncommon in the USA (thinking of the film, The Bridges of Madison County, which starred Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep and a Nikon F2).
When you say 'boxed' do you mean the sides covered? Protection from weather primarily. Most later/newer built covered bridges (at least the ones that I'm familiar) with were built like this. I also screwed up. This is the Shieldstown covered bridge, not the Medora bridge. The two are not far apart and I was thinking of the other bridge. Post corrected.

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Bridges were covered to keep them safer in the winter. As we all know, bridges freeze before a road because of the air under them. In days of horse-drawn vehicles, including horse-drawn snow plows if any (NOT out in the country), even a small snow, or a drizzly rain with the temp hovering near freezing, could make a bridge dangerous to the point of deadly. So they were covered for safety. All those that I've seen, like this one, are perfectly level, no upward arch to the roadbed. There are complex beams inside to make the roadbed rigid, and these also serve to support the walls and roof. The design limits the span, so longer covered bridges such as the one in the image above always had mid-stream support(s) that survive long after the bridge is gone.
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Bridges were covered to keep them safer in the winter. As we all know, bridges freeze before a road because of the air under them. In days of horse-drawn vehicles, including horse-drawn snow plows if any (NOT out in the country), even a small snow, or a drizzly rain with the temp hovering near freezing, could make a bridge dangerous to the point of deadly. So they were covered for safety. All those that I've seen, like this one, are perfectly level, no upward arch to the roadbed. There are complex beams inside to make the roadbed rigid, and these also serve to support the walls and roof. The design limits the span, so longer covered bridges such as the one in the image above always had mid-stream support(s) that survive long after the bridge is gone.
Here's one of my favorite spots. The closest pylon was from another covered bridge that the county sadly neglected despite several efforts to save it & and part of it collapsed in the late 90's. The rest of it collapsed around 2008. The second pylon was from a railroad bridge that was removed in the late 70's, early 80's.
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Here's a "bridge" in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. This is on Big Fork Ridge trail just off of Caldwell Fork in Cataloochee. That's my son with his K70! You only get the luxury of these bridges when you are fairly close to a trailhead, as you hike further into the backcountry, its off with the boots and wade!



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Here's a bridge from a recent trip to Boston. I cant remember the name, but it starts with a Z, I think and is named after a civil rights activist if I remember correctly!







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QuoteOriginally posted by cdd29 Quote
Here's one of my favorite spots. The closest pylon was from another covered bridge that the county sadly neglected despite several efforts to save it & and part of it collapsed in the late 90's. The rest of it collapsed around 2008. The second pylon was from a railroad bridge that was removed in the late 70's, early 80's.
We visited the site of a covered bridge that wasn't there, although there was a historic marker (it was a particularly long bridge). It had been completely restored some time earlier, and within a short time after the restoration a freak windstorm completely destroyed it. No one seemed to have the will to start a second restoration.
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Yes this is a candidate for a multi-shot pano with a long lens (if I have the opportunity), It is the railroad bridge over the North Platte River, Guernsey, Wyoming. I thought it unique so rather than wait for perfection. . . .
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Here's a bridge from a recent trip to Boston. I cant remember the name, but it starts with a Z, I think and is named after a civil rights activist if I remember correctly!
You remember correctly. It is the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge. He was a civil rights activist, much later than Bunker Hill.
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I think the phrase "they don't build them like they used to" applies to both of these bridges.
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Mill Race Park
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False colors works very well for that image. A dreamscape.

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That shadow creates a near ominous mood.
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