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Reposting the bridges seen in Portugal earlier this week and posted in my windfarm blogging diary:

The bridge in Pinhcao

The new highway bridge, and the old road bridge in Peso da Regua


An old railway bridge not far from the above two, as seen form the highway:




In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 20th, 2005 at 05:14:07 PM EST
I found this in one of my sources (a railfan source that, as an archive, is very useful even for professionals):

...BLN 751.0139][PT] Regua - Lamego: ...a steeply-graded metre-gauge branch from Regua did once cross the hills to reach Lamego, 15km to the south, and that construction began towards Vila Franca de Naves on the Linha da Beira-Alta, a further 95km south.  On a visit in 1990, remains included not only the disused rail bridge next to the road bridge over the river Douro at Regua but, 4km to the south, a sizeable concrete-and-stone viaduct built on a horseshoe curve across a valley, with trackbed disappearing into a hydro-electric power-station, and probably into a tunnel beyond.  Though it was clearly built for a railway, walking along the formation revealed no visible artefacts to confirm it had ever actually carried trains...


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Fri Oct 21st, 2005 at 06:50:20 AM EST
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