For a change a good use of tax dollars [swg] . Seriously though it’s about time some of these truss bridges got saved. The’re getting rarer and rarer every day, both road and rail ones.
There’s a bridge debate going on in my county. The (now abandoned) MO-PAC line through here crossed US highway 75 on a short bridge, and the debate is weither or not to spend over 1 mil to remove it, and construct a new bridge for the trail traffic so the hwy. can be widened and a small clearance problem solved. I don’t want to see it removed because it’s one of a kind on the line. It’s a ballasted deck plate girder over the hwy. with concrete approaches, and WROUGHT IRON railings.