Wow. Like waters under a troubled bridge. I hope someone was able to lay her down.
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Chuck... Great photo and informative remarks to go with it! I appreciate how you always share informative, interesting and accurate remarks with all your photos. I have to ask if you ever found out what happened to this lift bridge? You mention the bridge tender may have "retired to the bar after his shift," which makes me wonder if he was responsible for this? Indeed, this was a rough time period for the Soo. Thanks for sharing this and all your other recent gems with us and please continue to do so!
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| Posted by Thomas on April 2, 2011 | |
The bridge tender's first comment at the bar......."make it a double!"
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I think it more likely that he ordered something that would "Go down smooth."
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| Posted by Sport! on April 4, 2011 | |
I hate it when the happens! Definitely not on the right-side of "Trick or Treat" that night.
At least they couldn't blame the operator for "texting on the job" back then...
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This is sure one amazing photo as I have never heard nor have seen this ever to happen to a railroad lift-bridge in the past. This bridge is so large that I wonder why did nobody stop the other side from go lower/higher than what the opposite side was currently at? I'm glad they did not have an issue like this while a train was traveling across because I know they would have had a much larger problem on there hands at that point. Glad to see and to know that nobody was injured in a freak incident like this one.
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