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Abandoned National Road bridge

uploaded by mobilene September 25, 2008 at 02:01 pm
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Abandoned National Road bridge by mobilene on flickr.com

As of the day I uploaded this photo, Google Maps shows this bridge still in use and the new bridge (several yards to the east) still under construction.

maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ree...

Yahoo! Maps has a newer image showing the new bridge completed.

This bridge is on the National Road's original path through western Indiana. This bridge looks (to me) typical of bridges built in the late 1910s and through about 1930 in Indiana.

It is not clear to me whether US 40 ever traveled this route.

Tags: Bridge, Highway, World, cornwall, abandoned, charlottetown, Hanna, highway one, Trans-Canada, tropical storm hanna, highway 1, trans canada highway, abandonedroad, nationalroad

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NP! ID: 1729459

Title: Abandoned National Road bridge

File Size: 2576 × 1716 – 2.25 MB

Created: Thu, 09/25/2008 - 2:01pm

Modified: Thu, 09/25/2008 - 2:01pm

File Type: image (jpeg)

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mobilene

at 14:01 on September 25th, 2008

This is an abandoned bridge in western Indiana that once carried traffic over the first federally-funded highway in the United States, the National Road.