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Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

Don Barrett (aka DBs travels) club

Posted: 25 May 2014

Taken: 26 Apr 2011

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Sacramento Tower Bridge (4216)

Sacramento Tower Bridge (4216)
Tower Bridge, Sacramento, built in 1935 as part of the New Deal. First time I had seen the bridge open.

, , Roger Dodger, have particularly liked this photo

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 Jaap van 't Veen
Jaap van 't Veen club
Beautifully composed.
10 years ago.
 Clint
Clint
There's one lift bridge like this that I know of here in Chicago that I've watched in motion, and it's a marvelous contraption. I've seen these in very few places, and I've never seen another quite like this. I wasn't lucky enough to see it in motion when we passed through Sacramento in 2007, though.
10 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Clint
Basically you have to be in Sacto when that specific river cruise is running. I was up there repeatedly for years and never saw it run, and didn't think the bridge actually lifted any more -- then I was there on a string of trips when the cruise ran / bridge lifted.

Such bridges seem to reflect a different time, long before there could be easy decisions to wipe out enough property to build the long approaches necessary for a higher, no-lift, bridge.

Searching around on the Internet, there's an astounding lift bridge in Duluth, if you're up there again.
10 years ago.
 Roger Dodger
Roger Dodger club
Nice interesting shot.
10 years ago.
 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
Thanks, all. It is a gorgeous bridge, but surprisingly unknown.
10 years ago.

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