Went Exploring Today

[fossis]

Being an Outdoorsman, I have to take a walk every day,
even if it's just to the grocery store.
Today I drove to the country, & walked across a cow pasture,
& explored under an old RR bridge.
I saw a deer quietly slip away out of sight, found a dead, (stinky) cottonmouth moccasin, someone had shot, & left in the river, got it out, (water goes into my drinking water).
I saw old timbers left from the previous bridge, still standing in
the river, bolts in the granite rock they used to construct the last
one, old boiler parts, (I guess), from an old 'steam engine.
Broken couplings, (glad I wasn't under there when it fell), &
oddly enough, where water had dripped through gravel, onto the
concrete piers, I found ( stelagtites), hanging there, the gravel was probably shipped in from MO, (cave country), limestone.
It is hard to imagine the work that went into building this bridge, there was mostly Mule, & horse power, plus manpower.

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[VanGone]

Excellent pictures Fossis,I enjoyed your outing.Thanks for posting them.
Van

 

[fossis]

Nice pics Fossis . That bridge looks like a postcard . Hoss

Thanks Hoss

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[fossis]

Excellent pictures Fossis,I enjoyed your outing.Thanks for posting them.
Van

Thanks for coming along Van.

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[fossis]

I see artificial stalactites under on viaducts all the time. What gets me is when you visit a commercial cave that tell you it takes thousands of years per inch for them to form. I think under theright conditions i.e. that right material and the right amount of acid rain and the right humidity levels anything is possable. Great pics though!!!

That is 'food for thought', I have seen beer cans coated with the drip from mine shafts, they would soon be encased,
if left a few years.

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[scotto]

Great pics bud. Love the old bridge. Those stalagtites remind me of the ones that were growing under a bridge I used to look at when I was a kid in my home town.

 

[fossis]

Great pics bud. Love the old bridge. Those stalagtites remind me of the ones that were growing under a bridge I used to look at when I was a kid in my home town.

Thanks, Scotto.

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[River Rat]

Great picture, Fossis. Thanks for taking us exploring with you.

 

[fossis]

Great picture, Fossis. Thanks for taking us exploring with you.

Glad you all came along.

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[Cannonman17]

I didn't get a chance to get out for a walk today but I feel like I did now, thanks for sharing!

 

[DAVINCIDOG]

It always amazes me the feats of engineering that occured before we had all the modern technology that makes it seem so simple today. Thanks for sharing your day out!

 

[fossis]

I didn't get a chance to get out for a walk today but I feel like I did now, thanks for sharing!

You're quite welcome.

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[fossis]

It always amazes me the feats of engineering that occured before we had all the modern technology that makes it seem so simple today. Thanks for sharing your day out!

It does 'boggle the mind', how the 'old timers' built
some things with primitive tools, & brute force.

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[fossis]

yeah "modern " works are flakin off and collapsing while these bridges are 100 plus and still in great working order..If your ever in St Louis checkout the Eads Bridge. Its a true work of art.

Sadly, it's a reflection of how our whole Country is
headed, I fear. (shoddy overseas imports, & inferior bldg).

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