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Good topic! I love bridges!

Here is my favourite bridge:

This incredible monster, or three monsters (it looks like three dinosaurs in a row to me) stands near Edinburgh in Scotland, it is the famous Forth (Rail) Bridge. It was built this massive to reassure passangers, after another long bridge nearby over the Firth of Tay collapsed under a train in severe weather - then thought to have been due to wind pressure*.

I visited this bridge (near the same vantage point as this photo had) late during a long summer sunset, and in the setting Sun's light the view was dramatic. (If I ever get near a good scanner, I might re-start this thread and post some of my own photos.)

* It took decades until engineering science discovered the phenomenon that was also identified as the real culprit of this disaster: the successive wind gusts caused oscillations along the narrow but high multi-pillar bridge, sort of like a curtain in a breeze but upside down, and the train with its weight and momentum pushed the oscillation beyond the limit. (I got this from a relative who studied engineering.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Aug 18th, 2005 at 04:56:47 PM EST


*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Aug 18th, 2005 at 05:47:40 PM EST
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Die Bruecke am Tai
"Wann  treffen wir drei wieder zusamm?"
   "Um die siebente Stund', am Brückendamm."
      "Am Mittelpfeiler."
                 0;                &# 160;  "Ich lösche die Flamm."
"Ich mit."

                "Ich komme vom Norden her."
"Und ich vom Süden."
                 0;                &# 160;  "Und ich vom Meer."

"Hei, das  gibt einen Ringelreihn,
Und die Brücke muß in den Grund hinein."

"Und der  Zug, der in die Brücke tritt
Um die siebente Stund'?"
                 0;                &# 160;      "Ei, der muß mit."
"Muß mit"

                 "Tand, Tand
Ist das Gebilde von Menschenhand!"

Sorry school days - one of the poems I had to learn

by PeWi on Thu Aug 18th, 2005 at 06:46:35 PM EST
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one of the poems I had to learn

Hah! Me too, when I went to school there...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Thu Aug 18th, 2005 at 07:00:43 PM EST
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